An Abundance Of Solutions

My boy started the Kindergarten this year. I drive to endure a skillful parent and function alongside him closely on his sight-words too handwriting. Today nosotros were reviewing his weekly reader magazine, too I read to him the next question from the magazine.

There is entirely i pumpkin left at the pumpkin patch. Mingo too Zip both desire the pumpkin. What should they do?

I jurist the tardily respond (maybe, the respond the periodical tries to teach) is that they portion the pumpkin. But my boy thought well-nigh a piffling bit, too said they should inquire the farmer if the farmer has to a greater extent than pumpkins somewhere. I went along, and together nosotros thought of several to a greater extent than solutions to the problem.

• Mingo too Zip carve the pumpkin nicely, too sell the carved pumpkin at a good price at the bazaar too purchase 2 pumpkins alongside that money.
• They split upward the pumpkin into half. For dividing fairly, yous know the trick right. One of them gets to cutting inward 2 pieces, too the other gets to choose. (However, my married adult woman argues this is non fair if the soul to cutting is clumsy and cannot create create to cutting into equal pieces. Then the chooser has an obvious advantage.)
• Mingo too Zip portion the pumpkin inward the fourth dimension domain. Mingo displays it on the strange numbered days, Zip on the even-numbered. (I wonder if it is possible to portion the pumpkin on the frequency domain or via code division.)
• Mingo paints too displays the pumpkin on Halloween, too then Zip gets the pumpkin and cooks it.
• They create a money toss well-nigh who gets the pumpkin.
• Mingo pays Zip too gets the pumpkin.
• They accept the seeds of the pumpkin, sow the seeds, too adjacent twelvemonth they stimulate got many pumpkins each.
• They both forgo the pumpkin, too introduce it to i of their usual friends.
• One of them gets upward early on too takes the pumpkin, the other gets a skillful life lesson.
• They aid each other too brand a squeamish pumpkin pie together. They utilize mapreduce to the problem, brand a occupation organisation out of it, too learn rich. See mapreduce inward unproblematic terms well-nigh how.

OK, I didn't actually drive to hash out the mapreduce thought alongside my son. I am waiting a duad to a greater extent than years earlier nosotros stimulate got the mapreduce too writing robust programs talk.

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