Mathematics: all classes: 1. period

[charlieeppes.livejournal.com]

Today's breakfast is pizza and pop and coffee.

Charlie is still working on his equations because the mun needs more sunlight, damnit.

Beginners
Do this exercise.

Intermediates
A rectangular sheet of paper is folded so that two diagonally opposite corners come together. If the crease formed is the same length as the longer side of the sheet, what is the ratio of the longer side of the sheet to the shorter side?

Advanced
Study String Theory.

Comments

Intermediates

[charlieeppes.livejournal.com]

Paper!

Re: Intermediates

[chasingangela]

Angela signs in and draws a complete mental blank at the problem. Apparently, she really did skip geometry too often in tenth grade.

She guesses "The longer side is twice the lenght of the shorter one" and turns the paper in.

Re: Intermediates

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe gets out a spare piece of paper, folding it a few times in confusion. She can't figure out how the crease can be the same length as either side, but it doesn't look like a trick question...in the end, she just writes "The longer side is only slightly bigger than the shorter side?"

Re: Intermediates

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter seems distracted, apparently looking for someone who isn't there.

However, he spends the entire class period referring to his book and eventually turns in this (http://www.qbyte.org/puzzles/p001s.html) answer.

Sometimes being pigheaded pays off.

Re: Intermediates

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John tries to figure this out mathmatically, but if it doesn't involve trajectories, he has a bit of trouble. He applies the quadratic and ends up with an answer that's fairly close.