September 29, 2015
Problem of the Week
for Tuesday, September 29
Teri packs her oranges in stacks of ever decreasing equilateral triangles where as Mufasa packs his oranges in stacks of ever decreasing squares. An orange that is in the interior of Teri's tetrahedral stack is in contact with how many other oranges? An orange that is in the interior of Mufasa's square pyramid is in contact with how many other oranges? Whose stack do you think represents a tighter packing of oranges?
