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more Pluto!
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-pluto-images-from-nasa-s-new-horizons-it-s-complicated

Yeah, those are the sort in which one goes: "how can I remove these nasty words?" before doing anything else.

So I would go, before anything else

X+y=43,000  Make this very clear for myself.

Yield = 0.02X+0.06y  Doesn't require a step, but is good to do.

Yield=1520      To make it very clear.

0.02X+0.06y=1520   To make it VERY, Very clear.

X=43,000-y

(0.02)(43,000-y)+0.06y=1520

Then solve. The top bits will catch more people out than the bits I omissed, if they've studied, which you have, as the hour shows.


This requires more working than methods that might be suggested. As a rule, when one replaces numbers with terms in a question, more working is better working. I hate it too when people contaminate good clean maths like this, but OCD is more important than ability for these problems.

thanks it was the (43,000-y) that was tripping me up. the instructions had me doing a weird table in order to figure out the equation but that way is much better.

for lack of the rage thread i will put this here.

I HATE COLLEGE MATH!!!!!!

stupid useless interest calculation problems! i spend an hour working on them and i still get them wrong!

interesting article, there certainly are a lot of trees on the planet.

Link Just stay out of the comments section.

the robot Apocalypse is coming! and its starting in north Dakota?

anyway its certainly an interesting development that I'm sure will not go badly wrong at some point in the future.

Holy shit what! Seriously who would do that?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shot-live-tv-news-broadcast-virginia-article-1.2337586

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/26/434868666/two-journalists-killed-in-shooting-during-a-live-broadcast-in-virginia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeb9KH0NJI

Decided to look up theories as to why the Native Americans (North and South) never advanced as much as the Europeans did.

First thing I found sounded reasonable, up until it started going on about how modern crops produce less than 500 years ago, and how the wheat chaff is toxic.

can i recommend the book 1491? the main thing is that they were advanced just in different directions to Europeans. think of the genetic engineering wonder that is corn and things like tension construction with suspension bridges.

apparently new Zealand has lots of gold and silver. who knew?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/millions-dollars%E2%80%99-worth-gold-and-silver-found-beneath-volcanoes?tgt=nr