Can you pass eighth grade?

[ARD]

I hear ya. But I do. On pages, I have to.

58-pica page, 18-pica column on right. What's left for each column of three remaining?

40=x+1+x+1+x+1 (1-pica gutter), 40=3x+3...etc.

I made Harris do the work, except for the first part:
58-(18+1 for gutter)=39
Shift+backslash, sg, 3, w p39, hz 0, vt p1.2  ;D

Or, on my new system, Create Frame, 58p-19p. Having math built in is cool, esp. for those of us who are challenged in that area.

 

[BYH]

I bareliy passed algebra yet I spend most of my days figuring out ERAs and batting averages.

Hence, algebra is as useful as a set of balls on a tree.

 

[ARD]

6-for-8. I make the sign of warding away the evil eye toward the geometry question. And I thought Rodinia was probably where Rodan came from. I'd at least heard of Pangaea and Gondwana. ... And am I the only one who liked "Romeo and Juliet?" Mercutio has always been one of my favorite characters.

 

[farmerjerome]

forking pangaea.

Four.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

See? I don't want to know the damn formula. Just multiply, then divide, then equate. fork algebra. ;D

(Anyway, ok, I stand corrected. But I don't think of these things in terms of formulas. I don't think of anything in terms of formulas ... s'long as I can help it.)

Agreed. I don't need any formula to figure out batting averages or ERAs. That's really simple multiplication and division.

I have no idea why anyone would need to know what a + b * 1a =

 

[hondo]

Give Bush 2 more years and answer all 8 questions "God is good," and you're in like Flynn to ninth grade.

Gee...guess we should be glad Al Gore lost, since he scored lower on his college boards and had a lower GPA at Harvard than Bush did at Yale.

You can look it up..

By the way 7-8 from this kid.

 

[shotglass]

See? I don't want to know the damn formula. Just multiply, then divide, then equate. fork algebra. ;D

(Anyway, ok, I stand corrected. But I don't think of these things in terms of formulas. I don't think of anything in terms of formulas ... s'long as I can help it.)

Agreed. I don't need any formula to figure out batting averages or ERAs. That's really simple multiplication and division.

I have no idea why anyone would need to know what a + b * 1a =

Well, the first thing a good algebra class would teach you is WHY anyone would need to know what a + b * 1a =.

Without providing you real-life applications, sure, it's going to seem like there's no use for it.

 

[Buck]

The fact that you don't understand that you are using a formula does not change the fact that you are, actually, using a formula.

Zeke, I'd have to see this proof, There has to be a flaw in the proof if he's making 2+2=3.

On a side note, I had a writing professor in college who used a proof to prove that Hunter Thompson's narrative voice = Bugs Bunny.
It was an entertaining class. I also smoked a lot of pot in college.

 

[zeke12]

As did I. Which is why I majored in English and journalism, like a good little stoner.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Got 6 of 8 right, but the two I missed were the triangle one and the Romeo and Juliet question. That being said, we hadn't studied Romeo and Juliet by the end of eighth grade (not until 10th) and the triangle math we definitely didn't do until high school.

I whiffed on the same two but also had a couple lucky guesses to get 6 of 8.

 

[zimbabwe]

6 of 8. Triangle one was easiest (even though I suck at math -- pretend you are computing area for quadrilateral (lXw) and then divide by two). Had no idea what started WWI. For some reason, remembered Meiosis.

And now, I am off to the bar to ask women to engage in sweaty meiosis.

 

[RedCanuck]

I also missed the Romeo and Juliet one (I'm not sure why, I knew that play really well) and the last one.  We learned the Pangaea theory, but never any other ones.