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Golf for 10 2012-04-18
From Bob:
Question from Bob:

Hi,
I am trying to set up pairings for 4 rounds of golf with only 10 golfers (2 foursomes and 1 twosome) and trying to minimize duplications. Any formulas or help?

Answered by Victoria West and Harley Weston.
Converting from base 4 to base 10 2011-11-29
From anjg:
How to convert base 4 number 2^11 to base 10 number?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Expanded form 2011-10-12
From Chris:
Write this number in expanded form
4 326 180 501

Thanks!!!

Answered by Penny Nom.
Arrangements of ten letters 2011-04-15
From Mustafa:
In how many ways can the ten letters of the word GELATINOUS be arranged in a line so that the vowels are in alphabetical order (not necessarily together) when read from left to right?
Answered by Penny Nom.
10 golfer playing 5 rounds 2011-01-09
From Jeff:
need pairing for 10 golfer playing 5 rounds of golf.
Answered by Victoria West.
Bases larger than ten 2009-12-14
From Nick:
For numbers in bases larger than ten, what are the digits by mathematicians' conventions?

I assume the first 10 are always 0-9. I know two computer science conventions (for hexadecimal (A-F case-insensitively) and for base 85 (case-sensitivity plus 23 other characters)) and as a school student I learned that base 12 uses either T and E (which confused me when I thought they stood for Eleven and Twelve) or A and B, the latter as capitals only. Clearly, these conventions are in conflict.

I saw your reply in http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.99/magin1.html as accessed a few minutes ago but hope that in the 10 years since then mathematicians have arrived at a convention. Have they?
Thank you.

--
Nick

Answered by Claude Tardif.
10 golfers 2009-09-06
From Bill:
We have 10 golfers scheduled to play over five days on vacation in November. Each day we will play in three groups of three and one foursome. Is there an optimum solution that would assure that every golfer plays with every other golfer at least once while no golfer plays an inordinate number of times with any other golfer or too often in a foursome?
Answered by Victoria West.
A shape with 10 sides 2009-03-03
From Sandra:
One of my son's math questions is as follows: Suppose I have a shape with 10 sides. I choose a vertex then draw lines to the other vertices that dont share sides with the first vertex. How many vertices will that be and why?
Answered by Penny Nom.
What is one trillion divided by 10? 2008-12-09
From mark:
can you please tell me what one trillion divided by 10 is
Answered by Robert Dawson and Penny Nom.
Aboriginal number groupings 2008-09-04
From Barbara:
Our current place value system is based on the notion of 10s. Did Aborginal people use a similar system or did they group numbers differently?
Answered by Harley Weston.
A 10 acre square 2008-05-12
From RICHARD:
I AM GETTING A 10 ACRE TRACT OF LAND OUT OF A 50 ACRE TRACT. ITS GOING TO BE PERFECTLY SQUARE.I NEED TO KNOW WHAT EACH PROPERTY LINE LENGTH WILL BE?ON ALL FOUR SIDES.AND THE TOTAL SQUARE FEET WILL BE IN THIS 10 ACRE TRACT?
Answered by Penny Nom.
A 100 acre square pasture 2008-04-03
From Richard:
I need to know how many lineal feet there is around a 100 acre pasture that is square in shape. I am no longer able to get out and measure it myself, and cannot remember the math to compute it.
Answered by Penny Nom.
Multiplying numbers in bases other than 10 2008-01-08
From Imaiya:
In class we've been learning about numbers with a base other than ten. For example, base 7, base 5, and base 6. What's really stumping me is how to multiply these numbers, when they aren't a base of 10. I've had it explained to me once, but don't seem to understand it. Here are the equations, and I've listed the first few numbers for that particular base.

Base 5: 0,1,2,3,4,10,11,12,13,14,20 etc... The Equation: 34 x 42 Base 9: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14, etc... The Equation: 56 x 78

If you could explain to me how to multiply numbers with any type of base, I'd really appreaciate it. Also if you could show me how to do one of the questions that I listed, that would really help me =) Thanks so much, and once again, thank you for your great site!

Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Base 10 to base 5 2007-10-09
From Angela:
I've been searching online for the past week and I cannot find an Algorithm to convert from base 10 to base 5. Can anyone give me a step-by-step instruction on how to do this?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
The "22" puzzle and the "1089" puzzle 2004-04-22
From Marcelle:

1. Choose 3 digits from 1-9
2. Make all the 2 digit numbers you can from these (6)
3. Add the 3 original digits and divide them into the sum from step 2.
The answer is always '22'. I just can't understand why. Can you please help.

Another one related to this is it:
1. Choose a three digit number ensuring the first and third digit are differnt by at least two.
2. Make the reverse three digit number and subtract the smaller one from the larger of these.
3. Take this answer and reverse it and add these two 3 digit numbers .

eg:
643 - 346 = 297
297 + 792 = 1089

it doesn't matter what numbers are used, the results are alwasy the same. eg 22 or 1089


Answered by Paul Betts.
10,000 2003-10-08
From Nathan:
what two numbers make the product of 10,000. Neither number can end in a zero
Answered by Penny Nom.
Converting from base 10 to base 5 2003-09-10
From Susy:

My son, who is 9 in grade 5 has been asked to convert base 10 numerals into base 5.

His first question of:

24(10) he has calculated to be 4x5 + 4x1 = 44 (5)

The next question however is the tricky one.Ý We know the answer is supposed to be 100 but we find it difficult to get this in the way he understands it.

25 (10) = _________________ 100 (5)

Can you help us figure out how we reach the answer.


Answered by Claude Tardif and Penny Nom.
Converting to base 10 2003-08-28
From Karen:
My son is in 5th grade.Ý He is learning how to convert numbers from base 2 to base 10, and base 5 to base 10.Ý Can you explain it to me in the simplest terms?
Answered by Penny Nom.
100 from four 9's 2002-03-27
From A student:
My teacher gave us a math problem to try and figure out and I am stumped. The problem was this.... by only using four nines, how can you get an answer of 100? You can add, subtract, multiply or divide...anything you need to do ,but you can only use four nines.
Answered by Leeanne Boehm.
What is 20 to the thousandth power? 2002-02-12
From Kristi:
What is 20 to the thousandth power?
Answered by Paul Betts.
Column doesn't add up to 100% 2001-10-17
From A student:
why don't some tables I'm studying in a column add up to 100%? Example: N=338, but responses to questions asked in survey I'm studying equal of 24.3, 9.8, 43.8, DON'T add up to 100%. I'm assuming that some people surveyed out of the 338 didn't bother responding, but is there another problem related to proportion or ratio being used, but improperly labeled on graph?. Note at bottom of table says: "number in parenthesis are numbers of cases" and 338 was in parentheses. I'm lost.
Answered by Penny Nom.
The 100 chart 2001-09-28
From Nich:
Am I suppose to use the 100 chart for these questions.

Question One:
I am a 2 digit number my tens digit is 2 more than my one digit my 1 digit is between 4 & 6. What # am I ?

Question Two:
I am a 2 digit # I am greater than 40 but less than 60 my tens and ones digits are the same I am a odd number what am I ?


Answered by Penny Nom.
A 100-gon 2000-05-24
From Chris Mohr:
What is a 100-gon called?
Answered by Harley Weston.
1000 percent 2000-03-17
From Matt Stevenson:
If one invests $4000.00 and makes 1000% on the investment would he/she have $40,000.00?
Could one figure this by: $4000.00 * 10.0 = $40,000.00?
So is 10 times a number the same as 1000%?

Would 100 times a number be the same as 10,000%?


Answered by Penny Nom.
More on googols 2000-02-23
From Kevin Brennan:
Could you please give me a couple of examples of when you MATH guys would use a google. Do youu measure, like, galaxies with it ? Or was it created to keep track of Mr Gate's bank account.
Answered by Penny Nom.
Bases other than 10 1999-12-06
From Garret Magin:
We are doing a lesson on numbers of other bases than 10. We are working with binary, octal, and Hexadecimal. I was wondering what is used to represent number of different bases other then 16? Does it just continue on with the alphabet and if so what happens when you get to Z. It would be a help if you could answer this because it is really bugging me. And none of the math teachers at my school could let me know.
Answered by Claude Tardif and Patrick Maidorn.
A googol 1999-10-06
From Kevin Brennan:
describe to me a guegoll is that how u spell it?

it sounds like that
Answered by Penny Nom.

Base 2 to Base 10, conversion, convert 1999-05-08
From Larry Bader:
101000112 is the same as what number in Base ten?

a. 83
b. 128
c. 93
d. 326
e. 163
Answered by Penny Nom.

Large Numbers 1999-04-05
From CK:
Hello. I need a lesson plan for grades 4 to 7 dealing with the concept of large numbers. Specifically, how to teach scientific notation. The lesson plan has to deal with the following: the size of the universe is so huge that is is almost beyond the ability of the mind to comprehend. One way is to measure...
Answered by Chris Fisher.
Place Value 1999-01-05
From Reg:
I work in a Section 27 classroom with various grades. I am looking for assistance on how to deliver a lesson on place value:decimal numbers keeping in mind that they need to see it (visual) to comprehend. I am looking for grade 4-6 level.
Answered by Jack LeSage.
un jardinier plantent 10 arbres 2007-09-30
From yannick:
un jardinier plantent 10 arbres.il a reussi a les disposer en formant 5 ligne de 4 arbres. retrouver une disposition possible
Answered by Claude Tardif.
 
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