I just took my last final. Seriously, the bonus question took me about 20 minutes, and the other 9 questions took me about 25. No joke.
The bonus was something like this. If you get it without help, I might just call you a math nerd... or dedicated.
"I was on the second floor of a building the other day. My wife says, "lets take the lift. It won't take long, it's on the third floor and coming down." So we waited, but it went right past us to the first floor. Then back up, to the fourth floor; back down to the first again; and up to the fifth floor. "Lets just take the stairs, it'll be way faster," I said. "No," she said, "It's going to continue up to the 9th floor, then come down to us." In fact, it did. How did she know it would?"
have fun with that...
Also, I just picked up War And Peace. It has HOW MANY PAGES?!?!?! (1455) well, it'll give me something to do on a certain car ride that I may or may not be taking...
Monday, December 13, 2010
So Ends Another Semester....
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it's just a sequence that adds the last two together.
3+1=4
1+4=5
4+5=9
as for coming back to the second floor, I'm guessing that there were only 12 floors, therefore it restarted the whole process.
45 seconds.
BAM.
(although that last bit was grasping for straws.)
I got it like as soon as I read it...but I have that kind of analytical brain... :)
I'm currently reading War and Peace as well...I'm really enjoying it!
no katie, its not the Fibonacci sequence. that's what had me confused for the longest time, I figured it must be some sort of sequence or series, but I couldn't figure anything out. (Have you started series on calc2?)
Good job erin! pretty impressive. I laughed when I finally got it.
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