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Reasoning
Skills needed to score in this band
SKILL 1: Consider and compare different cases in reasoning about a problem situation
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Consider and compare different cases in reasoning about a problem situation
Example
There are five houses on each side of a street, as shown in the figure above. No two houses next to each other on the same side of the street and no two houses directly across from each other on opposite sides of the street can be painted the same color. If the houses labeled
are painted gray, how many of the seven remaining houses cannot be painted gray?
Skills needed to score in the next band
Make and test conjectures involving basic logic and set theory
Use basic number theory to investigate conjectures (e.g., conjectures about odd/even, positive/negative, and consecutive integers)
