Baked Beans and Spaghetti
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In this paper we show that there is more than one way to skin a rabbit, by giving a couple of approaches to solving the problem: How many towers of all heights can be made if you have available a certain specified number of baked bean cans and spaghetti cans, but need not use them all in any one tower? We show the relevance of this problem, and more especially the techniques used to solve it, for problemsolving in the classroom.
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