The figure below depicts the fifteen balls racked up for a game of pool.
The balls are numbered from 1 to 15. You must determine the placement of the
balls so that the following property is true:
The value of every ball in the bottom four rows is the difference between
the values of the two balls immediately above it. Balls 1, 2, and 3 have
been positioned for you.
Solution to the Problem:
Correctly solved by:
1. Akash Patel | Columbus, Georgia |
2. Misty Carlisle | Winchester, Virginia |
3. John Funk | Ventura, California |
4. Bill Funk | San Antonio, Texas |
5. Richard Johnson | La Jolla, California |
6. Andrew Marvets | Columbus, Georgia |
7. Franklin Harcourt | Columbus, Georgia |
8. Keith Mealy | Cincinnati, Ohio |
9. Jeffrey Gaither | Winchester, Virginia |
10. Victor Larsson, Simon Palmquist, Adam Hillerbrand-Rune | Tullängsskolan Sweden |
11. Nina Karlsson | Örebro, Tullängsskolan, Sweden |
12. Emelie Peippo and Kajsa Axin | Tullängsskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
13. Martin Dahl, Frida Öijerholm and Joakim Dahlstedt | Tullängsskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
14. Ali Alatabi | Tullängskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
15. Kathryn Harris | Winchester, Virginia |
16. Samantha Stockdall | Corder, Missouri |
17. Dave Smith | Toledo, Ohio |
18. Kristofer Friman | Tullängsskolan, Sweden |
19. Viktor Bergqvist | Tullängen, Sweden |
20. David Sundelius | Tullängsskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
21. James Alarie | University of Michigan -- Flint Flint, Michigan |
22. Ms. Bearse's Grade 9 class | Ontario, Canada |
23. David Wong | Winchester, Virginia |
24. Britney Ford | Winchester, Virginia |
25. Jason Aikens | Stephens City, Virginia |
26. Larry Schwartz | Trumbull, Connecticut |
27. Martha Johnston | Columbus, Georgia |
28. Suk Lim | Woodbridge, Virginia |
29. Frank Sitarski | Plainville, Massachusetts |
30. Walt Arrison | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
31. Nate Wilson | Winchester, Virginia |
32. Andrew Oliver | Winchester, Virginia |
33. Anne Beavers | Arlington, Virginia |
34. Joanna Monhollen | Winchester, Virginia |
35. Irene Mathieu | Winchester, Virginia |