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A sixfold increase |
2007-10-24 |
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From Fred:
If I have $500 and it grew to $3,000, what is the correct description of the increase? Is it a sixfold increase (sextupled), or a fivefold increase (quintupled)?
When I divide $3,000 by $500, the result is six, therefore, a sixfold increase?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A rectangular sheet of paper is folded along the diagonal |
2007-09-01 |
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From Amit:
A rectangular sheet of a paper with dimensions a and b is folded
along its diagonal. What is the area of the overlapped region?
Answered by Harley Weston. |
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Folding a sheet of paper |
2005-12-15 |
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From Victoria:
The current problem is to take a normal 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, take a corner and fold it to meet the opposite corner, and (without actually measuring) produce a formula to describe the result fold/crease.
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Manifolds |
2001-05-14 |
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From Thierry:
Maybe you could help me, because I have serious problems for the translations of an English mathematic word which is "MANIFOLD". It's impossible to have a clear translation in French. Do you have a solution?
Answered by Claude Tardif. |
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Folding a page |
2000-03-01 |
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From Krista Bischoff:
One corner of a page of width a is folded over and just reaches the opposite side. Express L, the length of the crease, in terms of x and a. I can't get the picture to copy to this form so I guess I will have to try and describe the picture the best that I can. The top right hand corner is folded to the left side, almost half way down. The width of the paper is a ( the width of the bottom part which is not folded.) The creased side is L and the part shorter part of the folded area is x (the part that would have been the top right of the original piece.)
Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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