English for Mathematics Education - Take Home Task 1
Due to Sunday, November 23rd 2014 12 pm
Discuss the problems with your groups, but make sure that you are understand the problems.
Send your answer to ilham_rizkianto@uny.ac.id in word document named using this
format: THT1.your group name.
1. Three boys—Jamal, Hector, and Simon—work together on a farm. They walk into the
barn, notice a scale used to weigh cattle, and decide to weigh themselves. Unfortunately, the
scale begins at 100 kg and no one boy weighs more than 100 kg. They decide to weigh
themselves in pairs and found these amounts. Jamal was sure that he weighed the most.
Hector + Simon = 132 kg
Simon + Jamal = 151 kg
Jamal + Hector = 137 kg
What did each boy weigh?
2. Find the pattern in the sequence started below and draw the fifth and sixth figures. Write
an expression to find the nth figure and explain.
3. Warren and Terry wanted to make pies. They needed to buy seven liters of fruit. Warren
liked strawberry pie, and Terry liked peach pie. A liter of fruit contained either fifteen
strawberries or six peaches. When they finished shopping, they discovered that they had the
same number of strawberries as peaches. How man liters of each kind of fruit did they buy?
4. You are standing in line to see a movie. Five more people are ahead of you in line than are
behind you. Four times as many people are in line as the number of people who are behind
you. How many people are ahead of you in line?
5. A whole number increased by the sum of its digits equals 73. Find all whole numbers that
satisfy this condition.