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Sometimes a problem starts out innocently, like the prover­bial mustard seed; but then it starts to grow and, Zap, you are engulfed by a mustard tree! So it was with the Three Hungry Men problem:

Three tired and hungry men went to sleep with a bag of apples. One man woke up, ate 1/3 of the apples, then went back to sleep Later a second man woke up and ate 1/3 of the remaining apples, then went back to sleep Finally, the third man woke up and ate 1/3 of the remaining apples. When he was finished there were 8 apples left How many apples were in the bag originally?

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	three hungry men, strategies for problem solving
Research Division:	Education
Research Group:	Curriculum and pedagogy
Research Field:	Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	Learner and learning
Objective Field:	Learner and learning not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Watson, JM (Professor Jane Watson)
ID Code:	137683
Year Published:	1988
Deposited By:	Office of the Faculty of Education
Deposited On:	2020-02-27
Last Modified:	2020-10-08
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