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Devising a Plan: Strategy

Explore how to devise a step-by-step strategy using the top-down approach for solving the Farmer’s dilemma. Learn to break down the problem into manageable parts while ensuring constraints are met, such as keeping the fox, duck, and corn safe. This lesson helps you develop structured planning and logical reasoning skills by applying Polya’s problem-solving techniques.

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Strategy

For this problem, we need to find a strategy to transport a fox, a duck, and a sack of corn across a river without any of them being eaten.

There are a few conditions:

  • The farmer can only carry one item at a time in the boat.

  • The fox and the duck are never left together without the farmer.

  • The duck and the corn are never left together without the farmer. ...