Answer:
Hilbert´s Hotel (by David Hilbert)
Explanation:
Imagine you are a foreign tourist that has just arrived to a town. In that town theres the<u> Hilbert´s Hotel</u>, internationally recognized for being the only hotel with <em>infinite rooms</em>. When you arrive to the lobby, you ask the manager to give you a room:
- Manager: "Im terribly sorry, but an infinite group of people has just arrived and all the rooms are full"
- You: "How is that possible? I thought you had infinite rooms
- Manager: "Indeed, but they are now full"
- You: "But that´s impossible... if there are infinite rooms they can´t all be full. I know there´s a way for me to get a room"
What would you do? You really need that room to spend the night...
NOTES: All the rooms are listed from one to infinity and only 1 person is able to stay per room.
SOLUTION
- You: "Look friend, all you have to do is tell the infinite group to move up one room, so the person staying the room 1 will move to the 2, the 2 to 3, the 3 to 4 and so on to infinity and i can take the room number 1. That way all the tourists, including me, would have a room."
EXTENSION OF THE PROBLEM
What would you do if two infinite groups of tourist´s arrives? How would you place them in the Hilbert hotel?
(hint: pair numbers are also infinite)
Significance of the problem
This particular problem is very interesting to me because it forces me to think out of the box something not only amusing but necessary to sort out day to day events.
Answer:
The correct answer to the following question will be the "Ponzi Scheme".
Explanation:
- A Ponzi scheme is a form of extortion that hooks investments and pays benefits from more modern investors to earlier investors with funds.
- It will retain a viable business illusion as long as the new lenders contribute additional funds and as long as most creditors do not expect full compensation and yet still believe throughout the non-existent resources they are supposed to ever own.
- It involves paying supposed returns from funds accumulated by investors to existing shareholders.
Therefore, the Ponzi scheme is the right answer.
Answer:
The Mississippians made waddle and daub homes and organized them around central plazas.
Explanation:
The Mississippian society was a communal group of native Americans that exist in round Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern, United States. They relied a lot on basic use of things that they can found around their environment to sustain their life. They use Wattle and daub which they made by combining wet soil, clay, sand, and straw as a structure for their homes.
They arranged their homes in a way that allow social interaction to flourish between their tribes members. They organized their hut surrounding a central plazas where they conduct their ceremonies or other forms of social gathering.
Marginal analysis. He is weighing the pros and cons of sleeping vs studying, and if the lack of sleep will potentially cost him the extra hour he spent studying.
