Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Baribag Campus
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Mathematics in the Modern World

Faculty-Marked Activity #5

Name: ____________________________________ Course and Year: ___________ Score: _______

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Term: 1 Semester, 2022-2023 Instructor: Engr. Noel G. Benavides, Ph.D.

A. Determine whether the argument is an example of inductive reasoning (IR) or deductive reasoning (DR).

1. Emma enjoyed reading the novel Finders Keepers by Stephen King, so she will enjoy reading his next novel.
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2. All pentagons have exactly five sides. Figure A is a pentagon. Therefore, Figure A has exactly five sides. _____
3. Every English setter likes to hunt. Duke is an English setter, so Duke likes to hunt. _____
4. Cats don’t eat tomatoes. Tigger is a cat. Therefore, Tigger does not eat tomatoes. _____
5. A number is a neat number if the sum of the cubes of its digit equals the number. Therefore, 153 is a neat
number. _____
6. All books written by J. K. Rowling make the best seller list. The book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a J.
K. Rowling book. Therefore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows make the best seller list. _____
7. Samantha got an A on each of her first four math tests, so she will get an A on the next math test. _____
8. We had rain each day for the last five days, so it will rain today. _____
9. All amoeba multiply by dividing. I have named the amoeba shown in my microscope Amelia. Therefore, Amelia
multiplies by dividing. _____
10. If a figure is a rectangle, then it is a parallelogram. Figure B is a rectangle. Therefore, Figure B is a parallelogram.
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B. Construct a difference table to predict the next term of each sequence.

1) 1, 7, 17, 31, 49, 71, … 4) 10, 10, 12, 16, 22, 30, …

2) -1, 4, 21, 56, 115, 204, … 5) 0, 10, 24, 56, 112, 190, …

3) 9, 4, 3, 12, 37, 84, … 6) 17, 15, 25, 53, 105, 187, …

C. Use Polya’s four-step problem-solving strategy to solve each of the following problems.
1. If six people greet each other at a meeting by shaking hands with one another, how many handshakes will take
place?
2. If two ladders are placed end to end, their combined height is 31.5 feet. One ladder is 6.5 feet shorter than the
other ladder. What are the heights of the two ladders?
3. In how many different orders can a basketball team win exactly three out of their last five games?
4. Find two consecutive positive integers whose product is 240.
5. If the hypotenuse of a right triangle measures 10 meters, and one leg is 2 meters more than the other. Find the
length of the legs.