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	Filling a pit with glass pebbles		2016-05-17
		From Sam: I need to know how many pounds of glass pebbles are needed to fill a 24 inch across circular fire pit, if 5 pounds covers 4"H x 4"W x2"D? Thank u for any assistance, Sam Answered by Penny Nom.
	Bricks around a fire pit		2015-03-05
		From Jayson: I have a round fire pit. It measures 25 inches in diameter. I have 12 inch long square bricks to go around it . My question is what degree do I cut the ends of these bricks to make them fit around this circle? The brick dimensions are 12"Lx6"Wx4"D. Answered by Harley Weston.
	An octagonal fire pit		2011-08-19
		From terry: i have a 18 ft diameter gravel circle laid down for a fire pit. i want to lay the paver stones out in a octagon pattern. How long would the sides of my octagon be to fit center on the 18 ft diameter of gravel base? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Bbippities, bops, and boos		2010-11-05
		From Stacey: six bippities equal three bops,and six bops equal two boos. How many boos are there in one bippity,one bop, and one boo?? Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
	Limits		2010-09-20
		From rodrigo: what's the limit of x+1/x-1, when x tends to 1? Answered by Janice Cotcher.
	The surface area of a fire pit		2009-06-30
		From eric: whatw is the square footage of the inside wall of a fire pit 2 feet deep and five feet in diameter? I need to estimate both the floor and wall square footage to order bricks. Answered by Robert Dawson and Harley Weston.
	An octagonal shaped gravel pit		2009-04-16
		From Melissa: What is the square footage of a 7'3" square ocatogon with a height of 5 inches? I need to know how much pea gravel to buy for my sons gravel pit. Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
	Compatible numbers		2008-10-30
		From Paul: Use compatible numbers to estimate the quotient of 23.52 and 11.04 Answered by Penny Nom.
	Right Sided Limit of an Exponential Function		2008-07-29
		From joseph: I am trying to find the limit as X approaches 0 from the positive side of x to the sin of x which look like this lim x^sinx x->0+ Answered by Harley Weston.
	What is a 1% slope?		2008-06-17
		From randy: trying to figure out percentage of slope lets say i have to run a pipe 80' at a 1%slope how much pitch is that? Answered by Harley Weston.
	A limit of the form 0 times infinity		2007-11-13
		From Russell: find the following limit lim x((e^1/x) -1) as x --> infinity Answered by Penny Nom.
	l'Hospital's rule		2007-10-28
		From SWAPNA: Evaluate the following limit using L'Hospitals Rule lim (sin x/x) ^ 1/(x^2) x-->0 Answered by Harley Weston.
	lim (1- 2 cosx) / (sin(x- pi/3))		2007-10-15
		From hanan: lim (1- 2 cosx) / (sin(x- л/3)) Answered by Harley Weston.
	Roof trusses		2007-10-05
		From Mary: I need to know how algebra is used in making or designing of roof trusses for a house. I have to present a poster in class showing how algebra is used in daily jobs. My dad works at a truss company. Answered by Chris Langdon.
	Th pitch of a roof		2006-12-15
		From Rob: I am trying to determine how much to add for roof pitch. I guess the best way would be to use a right triangle as an example. The base of the triangle is always 12 inches. The leg pointing straight up is a variable. I will say 6" in this example. By changing the variable how can i determine how much longer the hypotenuse than the base expressed in percent or decimal. Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
	(x/1+x)^x		2005-10-23
		From A student: LIMIT x-.->0 (x/1+x)x how to solve it. Answered by Penny Nom.
	L'hopital's rule		2005-05-15
		From Abraham: Find the limit of [(1/(x+4))-(1/4)]/x as x approaches zero. How do you use l"hopital's rule to find this limit. I know how to do it with multiplying everything by 4(x+4), and getting the answer, -1/16.But how do you apply derivatives with l'hopitals rule to this type of problem? Answered by Penny.
	The volume of an earthen pit		2003-09-12
		From Bruce: This shape would occur at the four corners of a rectangular shaped earthen pit with sloping sides (1:1.5). Depth is 14'. Top dimensions are 170' by 158'. After calculating the easy volume components of this shape, we are left with the end corner pieces. 21' base, 14' height, side hypotenuse 25.24' and corner diagonal 32.83'. We're confused. Thank you for any help you may provide. Answered by Penny Nom.
	L'Hopital's Rule		2001-11-25
		From Mike: I'm a high school senior. I'm in ap calculus and was wondering if you know the proof of L'Hopital's Rule? Our teacher said he has never been able to find it in a math book and was unable to derive it himself. Answered by Claude Tardif.
	A limit using l'hopital's rule		2000-12-13
		From Wassim: I need to know how to solve the: limits of (x ( to the power lamda) -1 )/LAMDA when lamda tends to zero ( the answer is that the functional form is ln x) and I still don't know how using hopital rule leads to this answer. Answered by Harley Weston.
	L'Hospital's Rule		2000-07-19
		From Dan Krymkowski: The limit of the following as x goes to infinity is 2*y. Y is a constant. lim 2*x*log(x/(x-y)) = 2*y Answered by Harley Weston.
	Advanced Calculus		1999-12-07
		From Kay: Hi, my name is Kay. Please help---these problems are driving me crazzzzy!!!! Your help would be greatly appreciated! Let a,b be contained in R, a . . . Answered by Claude Tardif.
	l'Hospital's Rule		1999-10-18
		From Yannick Gigandet: How can I solve these two limits : lim when n approches 1 of n[a1/n -1] lim when x approches 0 of (eax - ebx) / x Thanks for the answer! Answered by Harley Weston.

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