Bad Tomatoes Investigation
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Identical good tomatoes are placed in a 4 by 4 tray: Each tomato is a circle. Each tomato just touches all the tomatoes next to it as shown in the diagram. The tomato highlighted goes bad. One hour later, all the tomatoes it touches go bad. After another hour, the bad tomatoes make all the good tomatoes they touch go bad. This continues until all the tomatoes in the tray go bad. The first part of this project is to investigate how tomatoes in the tray go bad. The second part of this project is to investigate how tomatoes in other trays go bad. Part 1 There are 3 different positions for the tomatoes to start going bad. The first position is anywhere in the middle of any side: As you can see, the first tomato to go bad is the one coloured black. And then the tomatoes it touches go bad until all the tomatoes in the tray have gone...

