Solving Proportions Tara Lint MAT 222 Week 1 Assignment Instructor: James Segala August 18‚ 2013 Solving Proportions Proportions exist in the real world. For example‚ in finding out the price of a unit‚ or the population of a specific species. The first problem that we are working with states that “. Bear population. To estimate the size of the bear population on the Keweenaw Peninsula‚ conservationists captured‚ tagged‚ and released 50 bears. One year later‚ a random sample of 100 bears
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Solving Proportions MAT 222 Instructor: Dr. Stacie Williams Solving Proportions Bear population. To estimate the size of the bear population on the Keweenaw Peninsula‚ conservationists captured‚ tagged‚ and released 50 bears. One year later‚ a random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears. What is the conservationist’s estimate of the size of the bear population? Let’s make "x" the number of the total bear population. The ratio of originally tagged bears to the whole population
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Memo To: Ms. Ramos From: DOraimi Subject: 2012 Income Correction Date: 01/20/2014 You believe that the $1 million overstatement of the 2011 ending inventory has no impact on 2012’s reported income‚ because 2012 ending inventory is correct. In this memo‚ I will explain how the overstatement in 2011 ending inventory affects 2012’s reported income. Based on the formula “Cost of good sold= Beginning inventory + Inventory purchased – Ending inventory”‚ the cost of good sold during
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Cookies Portfolio The main goal of the Cookies unit was to solve the Unit Problem. The unit problem introduced us to the Woos‚ the owners of a cookie bakery. The Woos want to find the most profitable combination of plain and iced cookies to bake and sell in their store. We were given several constraints for this problem. According to the Woo’s recipes‚ a dozen normal cookies requires one pound of cookie dough‚ and a dozen iced cookies requires .7 pounds of cookie dough. The Woo family only
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Women and GLBT Yesterday and Today Sherri Joiner November 25‚ 2012 Maria Kithhart Women and GLBT Yesterday and Today Throughout history women and people of the gay‚ lesbian‚ and transgender community have faced many acts of inequality. Women have experienced inequality in many aspects such as jobs‚ voter rights‚ public offices‚ and other areas simply because of the fact that they are women. People of the GLBT community have faced these inequalities in jobs‚ society‚ public offices‚ and
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Nickel and Dimed In reading the excerpt from Barbara Ehrenriech’s book‚ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) getting by in America‚ I can certainly agree with the observations that she made regarding the treatment of people with lower paying jobs by society. Through personal experiences that I have seen first hand‚ the poor truly have a difficult time with trying to make a better life for themselves because of how society stacks the deck against them. My earliest experience with inequality happened in the
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SESSION 2 11-09-14 CONTEXT/ TUTOR’S REFLECTION Being not there in the first TD session‚ I can only rely on my partner’s feedbacks about our student’s reaction when she was teaching math. Math is a subject that if not all then many of us hate. Its like a plague to a student’s life. I was once afraid of math when I was a kid‚ so I could only imagine the contorted faces of my students because of the confusing things that math feeds us. Math is hard if you don’t learn to accept it as a part
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Introduction The Transportation Problem (Demand Does Not Equal Supply and Vice Versa) Linear programming is a mathematical method that is used to apportion resources in as efficient a way as possible. It is used to conserve valuable assets and save money. It is sometimes referred to as LP. The transportation method of linear programming is the specific application of LP that addresses transportation problems. Solving transportation problems is one of the most common uses of linear
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Inequality Equation: 12x + 15y ≤ 3000 (1). 12x+ 15(0) 15y ≤ 3000 (2). 12(0) + 15y≤ 3000 12x ≤ 3000 15y≤ 3000 12x / 12 ≤ 3000/12 15y / 15 ≤ 3000/15 12x ≤ 250 15y≤200 The problem 46 on page 240 in the text book‚ Elementary and Intermediate Algebra asks that I evaluate an inequality equation that can satisfy the Ozark Company needs. (Dugopolski‚ M. 2012 )The paragraphs ask for an inequality that can allow the company to use 3000 board feet of maple lumber. Of the 3000 board feet of
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Stereotypes and racism are all around us‚ many times affecting what we do and how we act. Quite often however‚ we do not realize the impact that they have on others and even ourselves. Bharati Mukherjee ’s short story‚ "The Lady From Lucknow" is about Nafeesa Hafeez‚ a young woman who moves from Lucknow‚ a city in India‚ to America with her husband and family. Although they are well off‚ Nafeesa struggles to enjoy her life and fit in with the world around her. Nafeesa then meets James Beamish‚ an
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