Mathematics: All Classes: Wednesday 3.22.06 Period 1

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"Good morning! Please wait until I finish giving the assignments for today before going back to sleep.

Now, you are all in this class for a reason. For most of you the reason is probably "we have to in order to graduate." But there are reasons to study, math really. So, beginners? You guys are going to come up with three real world scenarios where you would use any kind of math and then write a problem for each one. I'll walk around and help you out with the problems.

Intermediate, you're going to read Flatland. Yes, it has twenty-two chapters. Each chapter is at most three pages long, so please don't panic ahead of time. After you read, you will find a question that did not get answered, for instance: "How does A. Square eat?". Then, you will come up with a creative answer to this question while tying in something from mathematics. So a possible answer for me would be: "A. Square needs to eat e times his total perimeter each day. He moves towards his food and absorbs into his perimeter.". I'm sure you guys can be more creative.

All right, have fun! Oh, and if you want your current grades, talk to me after class."

Comments

Re: Beginners

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1. You've got a mercenary company all splitting the same take from a job. There are twenty normal soldiers, but there's also three combat medics, two leuitenants, five heavy artilliary men, and a captain. The normal soldiers get one share. The leuitenants and the captain, being officers and having to make most of the decisions and plans, get two and three extra shares respectively. The combat medics and the artilliary men each get an extra share due to added weight/responsibillity. How many shares do you need to give out? No, I totally didn't just copy this problem from Pippi, really..

47

2. The black market is having a sale on assault weapons, 20% off. I buy what would be 4000$ worth of assault weapons. But because the guy who's selling them to me is an old friend of my dad's, he's giving me another 20% off.

How much am I paying for the weapons?

2560$

3. Based on the first problem, how much would the Captain get from a $500,000 take?


Rougly $55,556.