Eric The Sheep Sabrina D. 8/3/12 No. Sheep
No. Shorn
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<--- Our Table There is a line of sheep waiting to be shorn. Eric is last in the line and too impatient to wait his turn, so every time the shearer takes a sheep from the head of the line, Eric jumps forward two sheep. Since you know how many sheep are in the line in front of Eric at the start, how many will be shorn before Eric gets to the head of the line?
Functional Relationship: The functional relationship between the number of sheep in line and the number of sheep shorn before Eric is complicated, you round number of sheep to the nearest multiple of 3 then divid it by 3 to get the answer. It may be hard and you need to know your 3 timetables in order to do it with speed, but its possible.
I worked on this with Romi and Esme.