Homework Help - February 2007

My wife is going back to school and she is having problems with Integer problems. Can someone help me/her with this problem?

THREE-FIFTHS OF A NUMBER IS NEGATIVE THIRTY. FIND THE NUMBER.

Thanks!!!

2007-02-19 15:35:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is an interesting person to present to a class, as a report and an oral presentation. I need ideas. ahh. going crazy.

2007-02-19 15:32:16 · 14 answers · asked by Azumi 2

Is paraphrasing considered plagiarizing? Also, how do you know when to cite sources? Can someone give me an example of each? Thanks in advance. =]

2007-02-19 15:22:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Plz, help me, I really don't get it

2007-02-19 15:21:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need it to be an informative paragraph telling what the war's about and giving facts. no opinions please. just a couple of sentences.

2007-02-19 15:18:20 · 10 answers · asked by caitig90 2

2007-02-19 15:17:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. the largest country in the state of New York is 1769 square miles larger than the smallest country in the same state. The size of the largest country is 64 times the size of the smallest country plus five square miles. How large is the smallest country in the state of new york? explain what you do

2007-02-19 15:15:23 · 5 answers · asked by JULIE 1

what aree the terms of each expression
10. 5x+3y=?
11 8a-4b+7=?
12 5m-2on3n-8p+q=?

2007-02-19 15:04:24 · 1 answers · asked by cosmin_trascu 2

what aree the terms of each expression
10. 5x+3y=?
11 8a-4b+7=?
12 5m-2on3n-8p+q=?

2007-02-19 15:03:32 · 1 answers · asked by cosmin_trascu 2

I need to solve 4 of these:

1. If the reciprocal of x+1 is x-1, determine x.

2. In rectangle ABCD, AB = 4 cm and BC = 5 cm. Extend BD past D to E so that DE = BD. How long is AE?

3. A township's population increased from x thousand to x + y thousand. Find the percent of the population increase.

4. How many perfect squares are divisors of the product 1!*2!*3!*...*9!?

5. A merchant paid $30 for an article. He wishes to place a price tag on it so that he can offer a 10 percent discount on the price marked on the tag and still make a profit of 20 percent on the cost. What price should he mark on the tag?

6. Find two fractions that are evenly spaced between these two: (3/a) and (7/2a).

7. Find the ordered pair of numbers (x,y) for which 123x+321y = 345 and 321x+123y = 543.

8. For a given arithmetic sequence, the sum of the first fifty terms is 200, and the sum of the next fifty terms is 2700. What is the first term of the sequence? PLEASE HELP

2007-02-19 15:00:55 · 2 answers · asked by Tammy V 2

What do you do when you take any kind of test and not prepared, and the test result was failure?? i need an essay for that, " u take a test not prepared, and whats the result? thanks.!

2007-02-19 15:00:36 · 4 answers · asked by heavenmie_04 1

well i got this question for my careers course but i can't figure out the answer... Q) Why does rudy take a job at the steal mill? How does the incident at the plant influence his life?

2007-02-19 14:54:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have to write a newspaper article for school entitled "Is Justice for All Possible?" and I have to write about something that is relevant to society today. Some of the ideas for topics my teacher gave me are: current or past descrimination, business practices, and/or international issues. I really don't know what to write about, I've been at this for 3 days and my mind is blank. Does anyone have any ideas of what topic I could write about?

2007-02-19 14:48:34 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

need easy robert frost poems not including:
Revelation/
The Rose Family/
Design/
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN/
Nothing Gold Can Stay/
Dust of Snow/
Departmental

need 13 poems

2007-02-19 14:33:49 · 3 answers · asked by help!_im_ an_idiot 1

Danny Wisniewski
Tarczynski/Bennett
Literature
February 19, 2007


Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.
- G. K. Chesterton
If we are totally balanced in everything we do than we don’t have our own opinions. We can't choose a side if we are always worried about others opinions.
Krakauer demonstrates his positive bias towards Chris though several writing strategies.
He uses literary conventions when he quotes McCandless’ diary. He uses word choice to show his favor towards Chris by using positive words. He uses syntax to show the connection between him and Chris. “Like McCandless, figures of male authority aroused in me a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please” (Krakauer 134). This is opinion and therefore subject to bias. “My convictions should be apparent soon enough…” (Krakauer I). He warns of his own bias. He organizes the story so that we see the end and then the journey is more important to us. He uses formal presentation to present characters in the story with accuracy. He builds his authority by backing research and telling of his personal experiences.
Often it is less taxing to gather an opinion from a dialogue than a treatise. With both beliefs presented one can weigh the two ideals against each other and gain perspective. Krakauer uses every available chance to sympathize and rationalize Chris’ choices. Krakauer considers himself similar to Chris; to some this would jeopardize his integrity and to others it would simply back his arguments with experience. In reality it can do both or neither or one or the other. I cannot agree that he is attempting to indoctrinate anyone because he informs us of his bias. At the same time I cannot agree that he isn’t in some sense trying to validate his own opinions even more by stating this. “I won’t claim to be an impartial biographer. McCandless’s strange tale struck a personal note that made a dispassionate rendering impossible” (Krakauer I). This builds his authority. Yet at the same time it weakens his factual basis in a sense. “…I interrupt McCandless’s story with fragments of a narrative drawn from my own youth” (Krakauer I). By relating his own youth to McCandless’s he is trying to make people understand Chris.
One’s likes or dislikes can vary but with matters of fact there is no interpretation. There are absolute truths and personal truths in life. Krakauer manipulated the facts, in themselves true, and added subtle inflections to present his feelings. As I just used “manipulated”, a word seen as negative to illustrate Krakauer’s bias. The words that are chosen have an affect on the message the author is trying to portray. When Krakauer writes of the potato and sweet pea seeds he slants every word to fit his opinion. “Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart” (Krakauer 191). Was Chris arrogant? Or did he make a small mistake that even some experts do? Krakauer doesn’t leave too much room for debate in his conclusion. The use of the word “expert”, botanists make Chris’ mistake seem innocent. The truth is that nobody really knows for sure. One can only speculate.
Krakauer presents Chris’ story with a genre of adventure. This sheds positive light on McCandless’s journey and proves Krakauer’s bias. Along with his word choice and authority this makes it difficult to not see some bias. Ultimately it is up to the reader to decide what to believe. This becomes difficult when Krakauer’s view is so accessible. This forces readers to sift through to find what they consider the truth. He does present some opposing views and accounts yet they seem to have been picked for a reason. “Warning that it was 1:00 A.M. and he was well into a bottle of Seagram’s, Jans let fly...” (Krakauer 71). This in regard to one of the letters he received about his article from Outside magazine. Jans was drunk while he wrote the letter. I don’t know if the ones he picked were the best out of what he had to work with, but assuming that there were some sober writers I think he used this to build his authority, furthering his credibility. “The author describes a man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch and map and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the ‘wilderness’ west of Healy” (qtd. in Krakauer 71). This quote goes without elaboration so again it is left to the reader to decide.
In life there are personal truths often called opinions and absolute truths often called facts. Sometimes people have facts wrong, or confuse fact and opinion because they believe it so strongly. To say that Krakauer is bias is to say he has opinion in a negative way. He used facts to attempt to prove his opinions. Sometimes opinions are facts and sometimes facts are opinions depending on how people see them. Opinions can be personal facts and facts can be personal opinions. Krakauer warned of his ‘bias’ so that the readers could sift through and forge their own path. Also there is something that I value highly called the Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech.

2007-02-19 14:33:29 · 3 answers · asked by Socrates 3

im doing a book report and i have to write and climax, a book critique, and a resolution but there's one problem I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS!!!!!



PLEASE HELP!!!!

2007-02-19 14:32:24 · 2 answers · asked by Mrs. Paisley 2

I am in 8th grade, and I am working on a science project. I am planing on researching on how the human mind perceives vision right-way-up when it is focused upside-down on the retina. I have about a week to work on this, and not much cash to spend. A proposition I am considering is, "Is the human mind capable of coping to perceive vision properly when the orientation is flipped?" I've heard of goggles that flip the light coming through to the eye. How could I make this? Are there any other ways to test this question? Could you give me some general help on the project?

2007-02-19 14:29:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

regarding thermodynamics....

are only 3 of them state functions?
only 2?
only one?

2007-02-19 14:27:47 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

1) How do you think war appropriate for any country in the world, especially, third war country like Sri Lanka?

2) Not every country in the world believe in the human rights, practice human rights. Do you think Sri Lanka believe in the human rights?

Thank you

2007-02-19 14:23:10 · 5 answers · asked by hoangtuthichdua2005 1

What is the probability that a small object droped from above on the figure, will land on the triangle?

2007-02-19 14:20:19 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

doing report cant find them anywhere plz help

2007-02-19 13:54:32 · 4 answers · asked by ashley 1

Randolph, Guilford, or Orange County?

My teacher said to use the internet to find out the answers to the questions and this is my last resort to finding the question, as it may be considered as "Cheating"

2007-02-19 13:50:17 · 1 answers · asked by Shawn! 2

I'm doing my pre- calc. I need help. I don't remember how to find the LCD, of equations like this (x-6)/(x^2-2) I just can't seem to find the LCD. I also have equations such as 1/m=(m-34)/2m^2.. You must solve this one. Can anyone help me?

2007-02-19 13:46:39 · 3 answers · asked by Liz B 1

2007-02-19 13:43:27 · 1 answers · asked by roserider101 1

working with factors:
3p^3 - 12p + 15
to do this here is an ex.: x^2-16= (x+4)(x-4)
answer and please explain how you did so

2007-02-19 13:43:17 · 5 answers · asked by alejandra611 2

I have to do an ABC book about the middle east with each letter representing something to do with the middle east. For example, Y could reperesetn Yemen. I'm stuck. I can't find anything for v, w, or x. I'm allowed to skip two letters so i just need one of these letters. Please help.

2007-02-19 13:34:38 · 9 answers · asked by caitig90 2

2n^2+2n+36
working on factoring: ex: x^2-16 = (x+4)(x-4)
i need help on this one 2 i tried everything but just couldnt get it
answer and please explain
thankx

2007-02-19 13:30:48 · 2 answers · asked by alejandra611 2

Im doing a research paper in my English class and ive been assigned the topic of Labor Outsourcing. I have absolutly NO idea what it is and I only got really Complex definitions when i did a seach for it online. I just need a simple definition that I and anyone else that reads my paper will understand. PLEASE HELP! My paper is due on Friday (2-23-07)!!

2007-02-19 13:28:28 · 7 answers · asked by jessica L 1

2007-02-19 13:28:21 · 3 answers · asked by gamblebarrelh 1

o.k...what's that word that describes the mood er feeling that you get wen ur all big headed and confident...like i mean for ex sum1 who didnt do their homwork and were very confident theyd hav time 2 do it later. like " o- that. that's easy. ill can do it later".
like they have a lack of motivation & a surplus of_______??

2007-02-19 13:21:38 · 4 answers · asked by 8teen 2