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knossos games Document Detective by Tim Boester A wealthy matriarch, Florence Cassoway, died of natural causes at the age of 92. The day before her will was to be unsealed and read, the family's lawyer died in a suspicious automobile accident. While investigating the lawyer's death, detectives discovered five separate telephone recordings of unknown persons (assumed to be Florence's five sons) discussing changes they each wanted made to the distribution of property and trust funds outlined in the will. The lawyer changed the will after each phone call, making all the requested changes; thus, each subsequent caller was reacting to and requesting changes to a different draft of the will. Unfortunately, only the final revision of the will has been found. Using the details of the conversations and the final version of the will, can you help the detectives reconstruct the original contents of the will? (Presumed Revised, Outline of) Last Will and Testament of Florence Cassoway: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Thomas Cassoway: bequeathed apartment in Paris, plus $15M Steven Cassoway: bequeathed villa in Brazil, plus $17M Ryan Cassoway: bequeathed ski chalet in Colorado, plus $16M Quincy Cassoway: bequeathed the family estate in New Haven, plus $19M Paul Cassoway: bequeathed yacht, slip, boat house in Miami, plus $12M Recording Excerpts: ■ ■ ■ ■ Speaker A: Paul can't speak French. Give me the apartment, he can have the chalet.... Take $4M from both Paul and Steven and give it to me. Speaker B: Move $3M from Thomas to me.... Quincy doesn't deserve the estate. He can have the villa and give me the estate. Speaker C: Steven knows nothing about yachting. Give him the chalet that I'm inheriting, and I'll take the yacht.... Transfer $2M each from Thomas and Ryan to what I'll receive. Speaker D: Would moving $5M from Paul to me be too noticeable?... No way Ryan gets the entire estate. I'm getting our home, and he can go skiing whenever he wants. ■ Speaker E: Wait, mother promised the estate to me, so how did Steven get it? Give him the villa.... Take $1M from each of my brothers, and transfer it to me. Solution to Knossos Games 21.2 5 7 5 8 4 2 6 4 4 8 6 7 8 6 4 5 5 8 6 5 3 6 6 8 5 5 5 3 6 8 6 4 Tim Boester is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education at Wright State University. www.cty.jhu.edu/imagine imagine 47 http://www.cty.jhu.edu/imagine

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - January/February 2014

Big Picture
In My Own Words
Legal Discovery
Order in the Court
Think, Debate, Change the World
Voice of the Students
What Young Inventors Need to Know about Patents
A Practice and a Passion
The Science of Crime Detection
The Medical Examiner Is In
Selected Opportunities and Resources
Wild in the City
Off the Shelf
Word Wise
Exploring Career Options
One Step Ahead
Planning Ahead for College
Students Review
Creative Minds Imagine
Mark Your Calendar
Knossos Games

Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - January/February 2014