Algebra 1 Extra Credit Project #1

May 11th, 2009 by 1orshosc

I will be doing my project on Graphs/Surveys. Graphs are used all over the place to represent data in a visual way. Graphs can represent anything as long as you have data that you can input into the graph to make sense. Also graphs are used when you want to represent numbers in percent form like with a circle graph.circle-graph-1

Another Type of graph that is popular is the Bar graph like the pictured below

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like you see in both graphs theres information represented by numbers. Another Reason Graphs are important is to get your point across. Also Graphs have been used for years. The most commonly place to see graphs is on presentations for a company or a important group of interest. Graphs are also good to have because the information is all there right in front of you, and you don’t have to search for in like and paper or report. In my opinion some people do realize how graphs are important. If we didn’t have graphs do you know how hard it would be to organize data. If you take a survey for example you have to put it in a writing format instead of a easily read graph format.


Math in sports

May 7th, 2009 by 2randlej

Some people might think that sports are for a bunch of dumb muscular kids that just like to have fun and not do anything. But im here to tell u their wrong. There is math in sports in many ways, averages, numbers, percentages, patterns, area, suface area, number of restrooms, prices of ticketing, and demensions. Averages would be batting averages, and earned run averages. Percentage would be slugging percentage, fielding percentage and how many times a hitter hit to a certain part of the ball park.

numbers would be how many hits, homeruns, RBI’s, runs, stolen bases, singles, doubles, triples, and strikeouts a person has. Patterns would be how the fields crew cut the grass, how the mound is circle, and the bases are square. The area would be how much foul territory there is on a field, Surface area would be the amount of area the whole field is.

The Florida Marlins baseball field has has the area of fair territory of 115,00 square feet. The area of foul territory is above average in the major leagues. It was first opened August 16 1987, for the Miami Dolphins (they lost to the Bears.) First Marlins game was April 5, 1993. The field is made of bermuda grass, it has prescription Athletic turf which provides drainage for its natural grass. It cost $115 millon dollars to build.

There are 43 concession stands, 264 service lines 1 T.V. monitor per stand. 80 restrooms, 40 mens, and 40 women. Prices for tickets are Clubseats zone A = $28, Infield = $21, Clubseats zone B = $20, Clubseat zone C =$15, Terrace Box and Mezzanie Box =$12.50, Outfield Reserved =$9, Mezzanine Reserved=$7, and the Fish Tank $2.

The dimensions of this ballpark is pretty much a pitchers paradise because it has long fences and a “Teal Monster”. Down the left field line its 330 ft, with a 33 foot fence, left center is 385 ft, dead center is 434 ft and 404 ft, right center is 385 ft, and right field is 345 ft. The rest of the fences are 8 feet tall.  The catchers plate to the back stop is 58 ft apart. Thats how there is math in sports.

Math and Roller Coasters

May 7th, 2009 by 2scheidk

Every summer I like to visit Cedar Point. My favorite thing to do at Cedar Point is to ride roller coasters. Of course that is what everyone else that goes to Cedar Point likes to do too. I don’t like to wait for the roller coasters, so I thought it would be a good idea to figure out which ones get the most people through in the shortest amount of time.

The first thing I did was go to the Cedar Point to get facts on all of the roller coasters that I ride. I was able to find out how long each ride was, how many people could fit in each car, and how many cars were in each train. The following would show the calculations that I came up with.

Name of

Coaster

Approx. ride time minutes

Rider per train

Number of trains

Total riders in an hour

Dragster

0.33

18

2

6545

Gemini

2.33

30

6

4635

Magnum

2

36

3

3240

Mine Ride

2.45

30

4

2939

Millennium

2.33

36

3

2781

Raptor

2.1

32

3

2743

Iron Dragon

2

28

3

2520

Blue Streak

1.75

24

3

2469

Mantis

2.66

32

3

2165

corkscrew

2

24

3

2160

Mean Streak

2.66

28

3

1895

Maverick

2.5

12

6

1728

Disaster

2.5

10

5

1200

There are a few things on this chart that are not completely accurate. I did not calculate load and unload time. There are also various wait times, especially with Top Thrill Dragster. But, if all things ran smoothly I guess you could figure about 60 seconds for load and unload time. If you add that time in to the amount of trains that run per hour you would get the following chart.

Name of

Coaster

Approx. ride time minutes

Rider per train

Number of trains

Total riders in an hour

Gemini

3.33

30

6

3242

Magnum

3

36

3

2160

Mine Ride

3.45

30

4

2087

Millennium

3.33

36

3

1946

Raptor

3.1

32

3

1858

Iron Dragon

3

28

3

1680

Dragster

1.33

18

2

1624

Mantis

3.66

32

3

1574

Blue Streak

2.75

24

3

1571

Corkscrew

3

24

3

1440

Mean Streak

3.66

28

3

1377

Maverick

3.5

12

6

1234

Disaster Trans.

3.5

10

5

857

As you can see, that did change things a little bit. Sometimes Cedar Point does not always run all the trains of the roller coasters when attendance is slow. So these figures wouldn’t always be correct. So, if I want to get on the ride that moves the most riders per hour I would choose Gemini.

Facts were obtained from www.cedarpoint.com.

Patterns

May 7th, 2009 by 2leonj

pattern are very useful in today’s life like for the economic problems people hope it will jump back up like it use to be. There where some people that saw it coming like Suze orman. She seen the pattern how the economic situation was going and she seen it was going to crash.

there are many different kinds of patterns examples are shape, sizes, color, Design, Architecture, and graphs. these patterns help people know how thing work and how to make life a lot ease. people make graphs for there bills and see how well their doing are how bad there doing. Some companies use graphs on there bills like the water bill when can see what month you use the most water in like in the summer you use more water than winter because you need to cool down and wash your car.

For some people they use there pattern for there grades like form the begging of the year to the end of the year and that’s a patterns. Like when people think the woulds going to end the take the ancient calendar and takes today’s calendar and compare them.

In people houses there are many patterns there tiles, and decoration

The Abacus

May 5th, 2009 by 2rhinebe

         Abacus is a Latin word that means table, and tablet. There are two types of the abacus.  The first abacus was made in 2700 b.c.- 2300b.c. in Mesopotamia. One type consists of a specially marked flat surface with counters, and the bead frame composed of  a rectangular frame with beads on vertical wires. The number of wires and beads vary, and some of the beaded abacuses have a horizontal divider in the frame while some don’t. The Chinese, Japanese, and Russians were known for using the bead frame abacus.  

        The most common Chinese abacus has 13 vertical wires with 7 beads on each wire.  There is a horizontal divider within the frame so the 7 beads on each wire are separated into 2 beads above the divider called the heaven beads and 5 beads below the divider called the earth beads.

        The Chinese abacus was introduced to japan in the 17th century. The Japanese transformation of the abacus was final in the 1920’s. The changes were 4 beads below the horizontal divider with one bead on each wire above the divider, it had 21 columns.

         The Russian abacus is set up to do calculations in rubles and kopeck’s. It didn’t have a horizontal divider and the beads were different colors to help with place keepers.  If you go to Russia they still use the abacus. Ed Oswald made this observation when he went to Russia in 1997. Until the 1990’s schools in Russia taught students how to use an abacus. During a archaeological excavation in Central America  they discovered an abacus dating back to 900 A.D.

        The abacuses are used schools all over the world from pre-school to elementary schools. They were used to help teach the numeral system and arithmatic. In the western countries a bead frame similar to the Russian abacus. Only changes were straight wires and a vertical frame.

       There was a special abacus made for blind people invented by Tin Cranmer he called it the Cranmer abacus. A piece of  fabric or rubber is placed behind the beads so that they do not move by them self. The fabric and rubber keeps the beads in place while the users feel or manipulate them.

       This is some of the history behind the abacus and how it can still be used to this day.

Student Focus #2

February 5th, 2009 by 1lopezm

Part 1:Question #1

(4xy4)2= hj

1:  multiply 4 and 2 which is 8

2: {then its (8xy4)2} u take the exponent 4 and multiply it by 2=8

3: the answer is (8xy8)

Question # 2

A= they are going to intersect

b=they are parallel

c=infinite

part 3

1=i see 7 triangles

part 4

Ireally hope i take Geometry next year. It would be great.

Part 5

That’s so funny. I feel sorry for the Mom, but he’s just a kid.

c=

(5x)0 (5y)1 (5x)1 and (5y)1=the (5)0 is not important and the rest are only(5)1’s so the answer is (

Student Focus #2

February 1st, 2009 by 2scheidk

Part 1

1. First you have to to mulitply the 4 and 2 then you would put 8x2y2

2.  you would start by combining the like terms (5x)0 and (5x)= 10x2 . then combie them all and get 10x2 10y2

3. distribute a2b2c2d2e2 and 9a3b3c3d3e3 then combine them all to get the answer. 9a5b5c5d5e5

Part 2

A.) Undefined B.) Parallel C.) Infinite

Part 3

I see 9 Triangles.

Part 4

A. Geometry

Part 5

His mommy was probably really mad.

 

 

 

 

January 30th, 2009 by 0alvordn

PART ONE

1. (4xy4)2=Distribute the exponet of 2 to everything in the parentheses.

2. (5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1= take both of the 5x’s and multiply them and then

 you will take the 5y’s and multiply them.

3. [abcde]2(3abcde)3=distribute the 2 to everything inside the brackets

and then distribute the 3 to everything inside the parentheses.

Part two

(.A.)  one line is vertical that crosses the X axes at 4. and there is a line going in a angle that crosses the X axis at -3 and crosses the Y axis at 3.

 

(.B.)  their are two lines that are parralel then at going on a negitive slope..on of the lines cross the X axis at 1 and the other one crosses at 4, and they cross at -1, and 4 Y.

PERT THREE

9

Part four

None

part five

i thought think i would sit down and talk to that kid and keep him away from the computer for a while….

student focus #2

January 30th, 2009 by 2johnsoa

Part 1

Question 1

1.)Distribute the 4 to the 2 and the x to the 2. Then distribute the y to the 4th to the 2nd.

2.)Then you should have 16*x squared*y to the 8th

Question 2

1.)Distribute the 5 to the 0 and distribute the 5 to the first, 5 to the first and 5 to the first. Do x to the 0, y to the first, x to the first and y to the first.

Question 3

1.)Distribute abcde to the 2nd power and distribute to the third and abcde to the third.

2.)Then you should have 27abcde to the 5th

 

Part 2

a) intersecting lines

b) parallel lines

c) positive slope

Part 3

i see 7

Part 4

well most likely a. Geomoetry

Part 5

haha thats funny..

that would be pretty cool to have a Barbie-pink car :D

Algebra 1 student focus #2

January 30th, 2009 by 2rhinebe

Part 1.

  1. (4xy^4)^2 =  4 * 1 * 1 =  (4^4)^2   4*4*4*4 = 256  (256 * 256) = 65,536
  2. (5x)^0 (5y)^1 (5x)^1 (5y)^1 = 5x * 5y * 5x * 5y  (5x * 5y) / (5x * 5y) (25x * 25y) = 625xy
  3. [abcde]^2  (3abcde)^3   [a^2b^2c^2d^2e^2] (3^3a^3 b^3c^3d^3e^3) = [abcde] * (27abcde) = 27abcde

Part 2.

  1. The line that is diagonal has a slope points of (3,-3) while the vertical line is (0,4)
  2. Both vertical line are going the same direction and both have slope points (4,4)
  3. The line is vertical and it has the slope points (5,5)

Part 3.

  1. There are eleven in that puzzle.

Part 4.

  1. I think choice B algebra one because i didnt learn everything good enough for me to take algbra two.

Part 5.

  1. He should of thought about it before he bought it. He should have also checked the price because he could have got a better car for a cheaper price.

Student Focus # 2

January 30th, 2009 by 2barryb

1. (4xy4)2

     8x^2y^8

2. (5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1

     5x^1 5y^2

3. [abcde]2(3abcde)3

     google it.

part 2

i am seeing a bunch of red line, a will touch once, b will touch never, c will alway touch.

part 3

i see a triangle with line going through it. there are 13 triangle find them yourself it took my forever.

part 4

b algabra 1

part 5

who would ever buy a car on e-bay knowing them it’s just a picture of a car.

January 30th, 2009 by 2cole1

part1

1. (4xy4)2=distribute the 2 to everything in (). so then it should look like 4 square times x square times y to the 8th. then u would figure out what 4 squared would be which is 16. then it should look like 16 times x squared times y to the 8th.

2. (5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1=first u would get rid of all the () by distributing the exponets. 5 to the first y to the first times 5 to the 1st x to the 1st times 5 to the 1 y to the 1st then u would add the like terms. so it should look like 5 to the 2nd y to the 2nd times 5 to the 1st x to the 1st and that would be your answer.

3. [abcde]2(3abcde)3 distribute the 2 to everything in side the brackets and then distribute the 3 to everything inside the ().

part 2

intercecting lines                 parrell lines               infinte lines
part3

“Student Focus # 2″

January 30th, 2009 by 2christa

1. (4xy4)2

     8x^2y^8

2. (5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1

     5x^1 5y^2

3. [abcde]2(3abcde)3

     27a^5b^5c^5d^5e^5

part 2

i see red lines and boxs

a is going to tuch once

b never tuches

c tuches forever

part 3

i see 12 lines

part 4

F. Honors Geometry

part 5

i whould laugh

student focus #2

January 30th, 2009 by 2warnecr

part 1:
1) you would time the 4th power by the 2nd power and get the 8th power.
so it would end up 4xy to the 8th power.
2)well you would combine the like terms and it would end up 5x to
the 1st and 5y to the 2nd.
3)you would times the 2nd power by the 3rd power and end up
with 3abcde to the 6th power.

 Part 2:
intersecting lines
paraelle
postive
Part 3:
i see 7
Part 4:
ger
Part 5:
thats pretty funny =]

“Student Focus # 2″

January 30th, 2009 by 1gahagaa

:twisted:

1. (4xy4)2

8x^2y^8

2. (5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1

5x^1 5y^2

3. [abcde]2(3abcde)3

27a^5b5c5d5e^5

Part 2

I see parelle and horizontal red lines and little boxes, some are intersecting and some a slopes :)

a. touches once

b touches never

c. touches forever

Part 3

i see 9 triangles

Part 4

transitional math 11 or 1 im not sure whateva u think is best

Part 5

haha first of all thats funny and cute i could imagine a little child doing something like that. and he must of been one smart baby to type in all the coad and credit card numbers or pay pall or whatever

Student Focus #2 Part 1

January 30th, 2009 by 2cashenj

Part 1

(4xy4)2  The first thing i would do for this problem is to distribute the 2. Then i would have 4^2X^2Y8. After you do that u must square the 4 which equals 16. So the final answer is 16X^2Y^8.

(5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1 The first thing to do on this problem is to distribute. then to combine the like terms to get 5^3X^1Y2. Then  you have to cube the 5 geting an answer of 125X^1Y^2.

[abcde]2(3abcde)3 To solve this problem you have to distribute the 2 and 3. After distributing you have to add the like terms together then u have to cube the 3. After doing all of this you get an answer of 27A^5B^5C^5D^5E^5.

Part 2

A) I see an undifined slope and a negative slope. The negative line has a slope of (-1,-1)

B) The lines are both parrallel to each other and have a positive slope and a slope of (1,1)

C) The line has a slope of (1,1) and is a positive slope.

Part 3

11 triangles

Part 4

A

Part 5

I think that it is pretty goofy!

student focus 2

January 30th, 2009 by 2randlej

Part 1:

 1) 4^2  x^2  Y^8

2) 1 5y^2, 5x^1

3)a^2 b^2 c^2 d^2 e^2

   3 a^3 b^3 c^3 d^3 e^3

Part 2:

1) intersecting lines

2) parallel lines

3) infinte line

Part 3:

i c 9 triangles

Part 4:

geometry

Part 5:

idc its the womens fault for not watching her kid

student focus #2

January 30th, 2009 by 2nobleb

Part 1

1. You distribute the 2 to the 4xy and you time the y4 time 2 too git y8.

2. You have to add the exponents together and the base stay the same.

3. You distribute the 2 too a-e and the 3 too a-e and then add all the exponents.

Part 2

(a). intercept (b) paraellel (c) undefine

Part 3

I see 7 of them

Prat 4

A Geometry

Prat 5

It makes no sence a three year old trying to by a car.

Student focus #2 Part 1

January 30th, 2009 by 2sparkst

1.(4xy^4)^2 What i would do first is i would distribute the 2 into all the variables and numbers inside the ()’s then i would figure out what 4^2 is “16″ then i would distribute into the rest of the problem so your answer should be 16x^2y^8 dont forget to multiply the exponent’s of 2 and 4 since they are in ()’s

 

2.(5x)0(5y)1(5x)1(5y)1  Step 1:Distribute all the exponents into the ()’s they

are buy. Step 2:Since there is an exponent of 0 that automatically makes both things in the ()’s 1. Step 3: Then i would add the exponents together to get one number. ANSWER=5^3xy^2.

3.[abcde]2(3abcde)3

Step 1: Distribute as always first. Step 2: Then add the distributed numbers.

Answer=27a^5b^5c^5d^53^5

Part 2

1.One slope is positive and one is undifined

2.The lines are negative and parallel

3.The slope is positive and the lines are always interesecting or touching

Part 3

1.I found nine triangles for this problem

Part 4

1.I will probably end up taking geometry

Part 5

1.I think that it is pretty funny actually

student focus

January 30th, 2009 by 1cooperk

Part 1

First off, dont do other homework in your math class and then complain when you dont know how to do anything. If you know anything at all about exponets then you should know you multiply the big number by itself how ever many the little number is. (For example: 62 = 6 x 6) When a jumble of numbers and or letters are in side quotations with one or more exponet on the inside along with an exponet on the outside you multiply the the two (or more) exponets. (For example: (5a3)2 = 53 x a6) Follow the general rules for solving equations that have exponents and if you finally figure it out check your work with the correct answers below.

1. 16x2y8

2. 25xy2

3. 81 (abcde)6

Part 4

(a) undefined

(b) parallel

(c) infinite

 

Part 3

11 triangles

 

Part 4

Algebra II

 

Part

I could care less if some fruit cake toddler bought a “Barbie pink” Nissan Figaro