Snapping Spaghetti and Opening Doors

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Jeffrey P. Smith Otterbein University, Westerville, OH

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Volume 117: Issue 7
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512–519
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2023.0250
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Extending a renowned problem, experimental and theoretical probabilities are explored for the likelihood that a randomly snapped strand of spaghetti can form an n-gon.

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© 2024 by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.
Page Count:
8
Article Category:
Research Article
Received:
18 Jul 2023
Accepted:
01 Apr 2024
Print Publication Date:
01 Jul 2024
Online Publication Date:
Jul 2024
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