/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8636039

I get that you're not really interested in the answer itself, instead you're having trouble thinking about how to formulate and reason through problems. It's no surprise, because this is something that's very difficult to teach, and a lot of the time just posing the problem correctly gets you 90% of the way to solving it. Any answer I give won't be able to teach you how to solve the next one if it isn't a plug-and-chug question.

For what it's worth I've written out my thought processes as I went about solving this. Does this make sense to you?

A good book you might want to read is "How To Solve It" by George Polya. It helped me quite a bit. Either way, keep at it.