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And the winners are ...

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Thank you to all of you who played the October Mathville puzzle! As you know, we draw winners from those entries who include both a correct answer and an explanation, so everyone who sent in a correct answer and an explanation has an equal chance to win.  This month we picked six winners. The winners of the October Mathville puzzle are: 1st place, each receiving a $30 gift card to the PVCC Bookstore: Sarah Johnson Madellyne Waugh 2nd place, each receiving a $15 gift card to the Mermaid coffee cart: Samuel Riddle Robert Porter 3rd place, each receiving a big Hershey's milk chocolate bar: Nicholas LaRosa Ashley London Congratulations to the winners! Winners must pick up their prizes by Friday, October 24th at 4 p.m., or they forfeit their prizes. Prizes must be picked up in person. Please present your student I.D. And now for the solution to the October puzzle. In order to find a matching pair  of hoop earrings, Area Baseten would have to pull a minimum o

Library showcase: Halloween Tales!

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Source: Pixabay Fall is here and with Halloween just around the corner, there’s never been a better time to discover all that the library has to offer on vampires, monsters, ghouls, and other things that go bump in the night! If you’re looking for a ghost story or two, who better to turn to than Edgar Allan Poe, a former Virginian who once attended the University of Virginia. Check out The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe or The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe to read some of Poe’s classic creepy tales. Possibly the two most famous scary stories of all time, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker, have inspired dozens of movies, stories, and plays over the years. Another famous thriller is The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, which was adapted into the celebrated Broadway show of the same name. If you’re already familiar with these, try some other spooky classics, such as Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes or Stephen King’s Just a

Mathville puzzles: The hoop earrings

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Area Baseten is the CEO of Positive Integers, an ad agency in Mathville. As an ad exec, she always dresses very professionally, and likes to wear hoop earrings. She has a jewelry box on her dresser that has 30 pairs of hoop earrings.Fifteen pairs are gold hoop earrings, and fifteen pairs are silver hoop earrings. Other than that, all the earrings are exactly alike. One evening, when Area was getting dressed to go to a business reception, the lights went out, and she was left in complete darkness. She wanted to wear matching earrings, of course. She thought for a moment, and then opened her jewelry box and removed some earrings, putting them in her pocket before heading out. What is the smallest number of earrings that Area would have to pull out of the jewelry box to ensure she had a matching pair? Contest Rules You must send the solution via email to Laura Skinner at  lskinner@pvcc.edu. Solution due by Thursday, October 16th at 11:59 p.m .  Solutions sent after

Fall Break!

The library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during fall break this week. (Fall break is October 9-10.) We will be closed on Saturday, and will resume our regular hours on Monday, October 13. Have a great week!