Show BROWNES BROWNE'S COW IS DRIVING EM CRAZY If It Brownes cow doesn't die soon she will wUl have half halt of ot St. St Louis in the asylum The Worst of ot it is is she abe isn't real but a theoretical cow cow if If she were real somebody somebody somebody some some- body might go out and kill her her- Browne Is Prof S S. S F. F Browne of ot Washington university Through a local newspaper recently he propounded the following problem A cow Is tied to the corner comer of a shed twenty five feet square by a rope feet teet lon long Over how much ground will It be possible for tor her to graze The result of oth this ll apparently innocent fiS g pr proposition Is that people e who figure and people e who dont don't h have been t trying l lIng to tell h eiSs Prof B Browne all about u his co cows cow's a grazing gras graz r ing tog possibilities solver in The cow declares one grazing from right to left describes one- one quarter of ot the circumference of four tour cIrcles circles cirdes cir cIr- cir cir- cles des the radii being feet 75 feet SO CO feet teet and 25 feet respectively In going from left to right this Is exactly duplicated duplicated duplicated and prettily enough the extreme boundary canted re rea a by of a circle the rr IOUi cows cow's the s sd d diameter grazing Is of f represented which woich gh Is feet and the area of ot which is the radius squared times 3 1416 or square feet teet But not so says another who figures It out this way UThe The cow can graze over three fourths of ot a circle whose radius is feet teet Three- Three fourths of ot the area of such a circle is 23 square feet It can besides graze over quarter one-quarter of ot a circle whose radius Is seventy five of v such h- h hv a v circle I feet i is One fourth i of square t the e feet area Answer is therefore 5 square feet teet Still another gives the cow this proposition sl 6 To To T secure the circumference of a circle multiply th the diameter by 1416 Three fourths area of ot a circle feet reet in n Diameter e equals square Tt fr feet t fa onefour one one- four fourth u hm aria area i of ofa a circle 15 lIt J feet in diameter diameter eter equals square feet one fourth area of ot a circle ten feet reet In diameter o of equals a circle 1963 fifty square feet feet In gl diameter one fourth 1 t equals q area square feet teet The number of ot square is isZ feet teet over which the cow can graze Z square feet Altogether nobody seems to agree over Prof Proto Brownes Browne's cow as the class in mathS mathematics math- math S leases at W Washington unIversity InTer Inter con con- Ocean |