Problem Statement: A football league scores points for field goals as five points and touchdowns as three points. They want to know what the highest amount of points that is impossible to score. Process: I thought that maybe there was patterns in certain combinations. Field goals = 5 pts. Then I listed the multiples of 5 to 25. 5‚10‚15‚20‚25 Touchdowns = 3 pts. I did the same as above. 3‚6‚9‚12‚15‚18‚21‚24‚27 I looked at the patterns and knew that if the team only scored field goals
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The The Washington Traffic Safety Commission estimates that a car accident happens every 5 minutes‚ with many of these occurring in Seattle. Not all of these accidents result in whiplash‚ but many do. While car accidents are the most common way that whiplash happens‚ any sudden blow that forces your head to jerk backward and forward quickly‚ can result in whiplash. What is Whiplash? The sudden and forceful jerking of the head forward and then backward causes the neck muscles to strain. It can
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Problem Statement - A farmer was taking her eggs to the market in her cart‚ and when she was heading there‚ she hit a pothole and all her eggs flew out of the cart and now all of them are broken. She then goes to her insurance agent‚ who asked her how many eggs she had when she hit the pothole. She didn’t remember how much eggs she had but she does remember some things from various ways she tried packing the eggs. She knows that when she put the eggs in groups of 2‚ there was one egg left over. When
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Visual Categorization with Bags of Keypoints Gabriella Csurka‚ Christopher R. Dance‚ Lixin Fan‚ Jutta Willamowski‚ Cédric Bray Xerox Research Centre Europe 6‚ chemin de Maupertuis 38240 Meylan‚ France {gcsurka‚cdance}@xrce.xerox.com Abstract. We present a novel method for generic visual categorization: the problem of identifying the object content of natural images while generalizing across variations inherent to the object class. This bag of keypoints method is based on vector quantization
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Chaucer’s The Pardoner would fit best in Dante’s eighth circle. This is known as the fraud circle. This circle is also broken down into ten different Bolgias. The Pardoner would fall under Bolgia three. Bolgia three is committing the sin of Simony. One commits simony when they sell ecclesiastic favors and offices‚ to make money for themselves out of what rightfully belongs to God. People would come to the church to repent of their sins‚ and often would give charitable donations. However‚ the pardoner
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Boom Boom Pow by:mason ¨Run run get away from here‚ it’s going to explode.¨ I was 40% bored out of my MIND because I have been in a car for 8 hours with only 4 stops ‚ but I also was 60% crazy hyped because we were in Illinois and that meant we were close to Havana the city that my Grandpa and Grandma lived in. Just then I saw the small windmill in their front yard‚ that when my INSANE EAGER-OMETER was at 100%‚
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Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Ambox current red.svg This article is outdated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (July 2013) Single-use plastic shopping bags are usually distributed (for free) to customers by stores when purchasing goods. It is a popular method that is practiced in many countries for being a strong‚ cheap‚ and hygienic way of transporting items. Lightweight bags are commonly made from high-density
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plastic bags are being created‚ that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year. You may think plastic bags are harmless‚ but the every time you accept plastic bags at a check out‚ you are damaging the environment we live in. For that one time you use that plastic bag‚ it can last from 500-100years. You may think you are helping the environment when you are buying biodegradable bags‚ but they take just as long to degrade. But there is a way to help the en As you may know plastic bags are
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Plastic bags have become an ever-growing issue with the increasing predicament of pollution into today’s society. Single use plastic bags are made from petroleum products and therefore affect fossil fuel supplies. The sourcing and manufacturing process of this product plays a part in environmental pollution‚ and is therefore a contributing threat to the environment (Clapp & Swanston‚ 2009). This critical economic overview of a plastic bag tax shall examine and analyse both the positive and the negative
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personality of another man‚ then why do people tend to discriminate? Racism’s effects are really harmful; they keep the society from progressing and cause corruption within. Security has increased at the airport; a person has to go through multiple bag checks and metal detectors‚ in order exit or enter this country. What ceases to amaze me is that the Declaration of Independence‚ states that “all men are created equal” but people can still have intolerance towards others. What really aggravated me
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