Download The Situation The Challenge(s) How effective is each password requirement in making a password take longer to hack using brute force? What is the longest amount of time it would take a computer to hack your password? What recommendations would you make regarding password requirements so that they are as secure as possible?…
The A10 motorway is a highway in the Netherlands. This highway is called a “ring road” because it forms a relatively circular pattern around the city of Amsterdam. How many kilometers do you have to drive on the A10 motorway to drive from the exit for s116 to the exit for s113? …
Pipes can be stacked in a staggered pattern or non-staggered pattern. With that as a reference, watch this video: How much shorter are 20 layers of staggered pipe stacks? How much shorter are n layers of staggered pipe stacks? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving…
How much money should Dr. Evil demand? What would the inflation rate have to be for one million dollars in 1967 to be equivalent to one hundred billion dollars in 1997? When would demanding one hundred billion dollars be equivalent to demanding one million dollars in 1967? These questions may be useful…
A woman is playing poker on a video game machine that allows you to play 100 hands at a time. At the beginning of this hand she is dealt the five cards pictured below: She decides to hold only these four cards: When she presses the “DRAW” button, each of the hundred hands will…
Where would the Angry Birds have hit the ground if they hadn’t crashed into anything on the way? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: What is a guess that is too close? What is a guess that is too far? What is your best guess?…
