{"product_id":"which-way-did-the-bicycle-go","title":"Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?","description":"This collection will give students (high school or beyond), teachers, and university professors a chance to experience the pleasure of wrestling with some beautiful problems of elementary mathematics. Readers can compare their sleuthing talents with those of Sherlock Holmes, who made a bad mistake regarding the first problem in the collection: Determine the direction of travel of a bicycle that has left its tracks in a patch of mud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhich Way did the Bicycle Go?\u003c\/em\u003e contains a variety of other unusual and interesting problems in geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and number theory. For example, if a pizza is sliced into eight 45-degree wedges meeting at a point other than the center of the pizza, and two people eat alternate wedges, will they get equal amounts of pizza? Or: What is the rightmost nonzero digit of the product $1\\cdot 2\\cdot 3\\cdots 1,000,000$? Or: Is a manufacturer's claim that a certain unusual combination lock allows thousands of combinations justified? Complete solutions to the 191 problems are included along with problem variations and topics for investigation.","brand":"American Mathematical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57186634105176,"sku":"9781470463823","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781470463823_6e680f8f-eba5-4156-8cf5-181c09e94a89.jpg?v=1780110948","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/which-way-did-the-bicycle-go","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}