Enna katriel C.

Villanueva

11 – St. Maria Goretti

Q. The rat and the housekeeper problem: There was a housekeeper who was running after a rat. As the
housekeeper chased down the rat, it climbed up into the modular cabinet and hid amidst the stack of
grocery items. While the housekeeper looks for the rat by going around at the cabinet where the rat hid, the
rat also goes around and was always facing and looking at her to be wary of its enemy. She was not able to
go north, east, south and west of the rat.

Was the housekeeper able to go around the rat because she went around the modular cabinet where the
rat hid? Explain your answer. Use your analytic and critical ability.

Was the housekeeper able to go around the rat because she went around the modular cabinet where the
rat hid? Did she ever catch up to the rat she was chasing after? No, because the rat was always wary of
the housekeeper and was consistently following her every move in the modular cabinet whenever she went
back and forth the modular cabinet, furthermore the housekeeper was not able to fully go around the
modular cabinet for the cabinet was, assuming, the modular cabinet was not placed in the middle of the
room, for some odd architectural and eccentric interior, meaning the housekeeper will not be able to fully
circle the modular cabinet for its back is placed near a wall, therefore its back is not accessible for a human
being to fit in, but for a rat it will most likely have an enough gap for a rat to slide in too.

The housekeeper was not able to go north, east, south and west of the rat for the rat was the one following
her, always keeping in track of her movements, plus with the stacks of grocery items in the modular cabinet
making it both equally hard for the rat to be found and the housekeeper to find the rat hiding which leads to
a confusing shenanigan of chasing a wild goose.