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    Polyas Four Step Method in Problem Solving

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    The document provides 10 math word problems for students to solve using Polya's four-step problem solving method. The problems include: 1) Three people exchanging stamps in a scheme where Alice, Ben, and Carl each end up with 64 stamps, finding Alice's starting amount. 2) Possible orders of two wins and two losses in four baseball games. 3) Number of 1x1 squares on an 8x8 checkerboard. 4) Number of math problems a boy solved correctly to break even with his father's incentive system. 5) Ages of three teenagers with a product of ages equal to 4590. 6) Value of a pup in terms of other animals. 7) Time in the future for a given number of

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    The document provides 10 math word problems for students to solve using Polya's four-step problem solving method. The problems include: 1) Three people exchanging stamps in a scheme where Alice, Ben, and Carl each end up with 64 stamps, finding Alice's starting amount. 2) Possible orders of two wins and two losses in four baseball games. 3) Number of 1x1 squares on an 8x8 checkerboard. 4) Number of math problems a boy solved correctly to break even with his father's incentive system. 5) Ages of three teenagers with a product of ages equal to 4590. 6) Value of a pup in terms of other animals. 7) Time in the future for a given number of

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    The document provides 10 math word problems for students to solve using Polya's four-step problem solving method. The problems include: 1) Three people exchanging stamps in a scheme where Alice, Ben, and Carl each end up with 64 stamps, finding Alice's starting amount. 2) Possible orders of two wins and two losses in four baseball games. 3) Number of 1x1 squares on an 8x8 checkerboard. 4) Number of math problems a boy solved correctly to break even with his father's incentive system. 5) Ages of three teenagers with a product of ages equal to 4590. 6) Value of a pup in terms of other animals. 7) Time in the future for a given number of

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    Polyas Four Step Method in Problem Solving

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    Problem Set: POLYA’S FOUR-STEP METHOD IN PROBLEM SOLVING

    Direction: Solve the following problems using Polya’s Four-step method and employing the different
    strategies presented in class. Write the problem and present the solution neatly and organized (ONE
    PROBLEM PER PAGE ONLY. You may use recycled short bond paper.)

    1. Alice, Ben, and Carl collect stamps. They exchange stamps among themselves according to the
    following scheme. Alice gives Ben as many stamps as Ben has and Carl as many stamps as Carl has. After
    that, Ben gives Alice and Carl as many stamps as each of them has, and then Carl gives Alice and Ben as
    many stamps as each has. If each finally has 64 stamps, how many stamps does Alice have at the start?

    2. A baseball team won two out of their last four games. In how many different orders could they have
    two wins and two losses in four games?

    3. How many squares of 1 x 1 size are in an 8 x 8 checkerboard?

    4. In order to encourage his son in the study of Algebra, a father promised the son PhP 8.00 for every
    problem solved correctly and to fine him PhP 5.00 for each incorrect solution. After 26 problems,
    neither owed any amount to the other. How many problems did the boy solved correctly?

    5. The product of the ages, in years, of three teenagers is 4590. None of the teens are of the same age.
    What are the ages of the teenagers?

    6. If a pup is worth a pooch and a mutt, and a pup and a pooch are worth one bird dog, and two bird
    dogs are worth three mutts, how many pooches is a pup worth?

    7. It is now 10:45 a.m., what time will it be in 143,999,999,995 minutes from now?

    8. The sum of two numbers is 12, and the product of the same two numbers is 4. Find the sum of the
    reciprocals of the two numbers.

    9. Find the sum of the first 100 even integers.

    10. An egg vendor broke all the eggs that he was delivering to a local store. He could not remember how
    many eggs there were in all. However, he did remember that when he tried to pack them into packages
    of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 he had one left over each time. When he packed them into packages of 7, he had
    none left over. What is the smallest number of eggs he could have had in shipment?

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