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Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 06:43 AM

As I told in my first post in introductions, in this thread, I will be posting some 'Questions' for MBA aspirants to attempt and to respond. After some responses / days, I will post my thoughts on the answer. Beyond just giving the answer, I intend to provide the explanation. I may also add different variants to the question and the possible solutions. Hope this will be useful to the MBA aspirants.

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I want to grow the maximum possible number of rose plants in the available space in the backyard which is of a rectangular shape and of size 8 meters X 10 meters. The horticulture expert advised me to ensure that the minimum distance between any two plants be one meter for maximum yield of roses.

How many rose plants should I buy?


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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 06:56 AM

I guess the answer will be 9X11= 99 rose plants...
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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 07:15 AM

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I guess the answer will be 9X11= 99 rose plants...
Can I not plant more?


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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 07:41 AM

I think keeping the 1m minimum distance constraint in mind we can plant only
9X11 = 99 Plants...

Not sure if I am going wrong somewhere...
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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 08:47 AM

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As I told in my first post in introductions, in this thread, I will be posting some 'Questions' for MBA aspirants to attempt and to respond. After some responses / days, I will post my thoughts on the answer. Beyond just giving the answer, I intend to provide the explanation. I may also add different variants to the question and the possible solutions. Hope this will be useful to the MBA aspirants.

Here is my first question.

I want to grow the maximum possible number of rose plants in the available space in the backyard which is of a rectangular shape and of size 8 meters X 10 meters. The horticulture expert advised me to ensure that the minimum distance between any two plants be one meter for maximum yield of roses.

How many rose plants should I buy?
Any other views? 11X9 roses

But not sure, as roses come with thorns
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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 09:18 AM

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Any other views? 11X9 roses

But not sure, as roses come with thorns
One can surely plant more!
Just think it over, else wait for a day.


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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 09:51 AM

planting the rose plants along the square grids gives 9x11 plants.
If rather, we plant them in rhombus grids, i guess we can plant more than that...
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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 10:10 AM

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planting the rose plants along the square grids gives 9x11 plants.
If rather, we plant them in rhombus grids, i guess we can plant more than that...
instead plant them in hexagon.................the viability of 1 mt is being satisfied by the arrangemet. the number of roses are coming out to be 132. what is the answer.......
atleast give the options.....................


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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 10:16 AM

i thnk answer is 9*11=99 roses.
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Re: Maths, a passion! - 05-06-2007, 10:36 AM

Mods, ain't this similar to the QQAD thread?

I guess this can be merged with that.

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