Problem of the Week 7

Due Friday, November 20

Purpose:
Find the order of 10 playing cards such that if you flip one card over and put
the next one under the deck, and repeat this process, the flipped cards will
be A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in order.
Understanding the Problem:
The problem we were solving for this pow is setting the cards in a certain
order so that when you flip one card over and put the next one back under
the deck, repeating this, then the cards will eventually go in order from A, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. One challenge I had was adding K, Q, and J cards and
forgetting the 10 card.
Process:
So I started with cards A through K and put them in order, A, 7, K, 6, Q, 5, J,
4, 9, 3, 8, 2. The order worked until it got to card 8. I then realized that I
didnt add the 10 card and so I added it and put them in order again from A,
7, K, 6, Qe order , 5, J, 4, 10, 3, 9, 2, 8. Then it worked until I got to card 10.
Then I asked if we needed K, Q, and J cards and we didnt need them. So I
got rid of the three cards and put the rest of the cards in order from A to 10.
The order went from A, 10, 2, 9, 3, 8, 4, 7, 5, 6. This set worked until I got to
5 so I switched the order to A, 6, 2, 9, 3, 8, 4, 7, 5, 10. That order worked
until I got to card 6. Then I switched cards 8 and 10 but left the rest in the
last order so it would look like this A, 6, 2, 10, 3, 7, 4, 9, 5, 8. This set worked
until I got to card 5. Then I switched cards 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 around and put
them in order A, 6, 2, 10, 3, 9, 4, 8, 5, 7. This time I got to card 5 and
switched cards 7, 8, and 9 to get the newest and final order A, 6, 2, 10, 3, 7,
4, 9, 5, 8.
Solution:
The solution we came with was to set the cards in this order A, 6, 2, 10, 3, 7,
4, 9, 5, 8. In this order, we flipped one card over and put one under and
repeated this until we ran out of cards, the cards ended up back in the
original order A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Justification:

One way I knew I was correct was by consulting my group on what their
answers were. Even though we had different ways of getting our answers we
ended up with the same answer.