Volume
2
Issue
1
Abstract
We will explore three real life situations proposed in Eugene F. Kraus e's book Taxicab Geometry. First a dispatcher for Ideal City Police Department receives a report of an accident at X = (-1,4). There are two police cars located in the area. Car C is at (2,1) and car D is at (-1,-1). Which car should be sent? Second there are three high schools in Ideal city. Roosevelt at (2,1), Franklin at ( -3,-3) and Jefferson at (-6,-1). Draw in school district boundaries so that each student in Ideal City attends the school closet to them. For the third problem a telephone company wants to set up payphone booths so that everyone living with in twelve blocks of the center of town is with in four blocks of a payphone. Money is tight, the phone company wants to put in the least amount of payphones possible such that this is true.
First Page
38
Last Page
64
Recommended Citation
Reinhardt, Chip
(2005)
"Taxi Cab Geometry: History and Applications!,"
The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 2
:
No.
1
, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1018
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol2/iss1/6
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.54870/1551-3440.1018
