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Who likes math?
Trying to do some homework and my brain is fried. Am I even close here?
There are 8 different statistics books, 6 different geometry books, and 3 different trigonometry books. A student must select one book of each type. How many different ways can this be done? Is the answer 8/17 * 6/16 * 3/15 |
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Re: Who likes math?
when you do math problems like this, you should ask yourself when you get your answer, 'does this make sense?'
How can you get a fractional number of ways to do something? |
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Re: Who likes math?
8 * 6 * 3
wtf were you dividing by? |
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Re: Who likes math?
I came up with 144 the first time I did it. But since they can only choose one of each book I thought it was wrong. For instance isn't 2 statistics books and 1 geometry book one of the possibilities of the 144? That isn't 1 of each book.
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Re: Who likes math?
You must be a math teacher.
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Re: Who likes math?
try the Science, Math, Philosophy forum.. you'll get much better answers
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Re: Who likes math?
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try the Science, Math, Philosophy forum.. you'll get much better answers [/ QUOTE ] I just posted it there, thanks. |
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Re: Who likes math?
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when you do math problems like this, you should ask yourself when you get your answer, 'does this make sense?' How can you get a fractional number of ways to do something? [/ QUOTE ] Hahaha. |
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Re: Who likes math?
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How can you get a fractional number of ways to do something? [/ QUOTE ] True, I'm an idiot. Need to stop drinking spotted cow and doing homework. |
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Re: Who likes math?
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[ QUOTE ] when you do math problems like this, you should ask yourself when you get your answer, 'does this make sense?' How can you get a fractional number of ways to do something? [/ QUOTE ] Hahaha. [/ QUOTE ] |
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