@Tryagain,
Quote:BTW: How did the Sox get on last Wednesday; I fell asleep and missed the game!
Awww you poor thing, you telling me you can't stay awake for a 14 inning game? I'm sure you're fully aware of the results....just rubbing it in aren't ya?
UUDAY= Tuesday
Izzie:
$0.00 ALL ALL ALL ALL = Free For All
SHACRYME = Cryin' Shame
Stormy:
UUDAY= Tuesday
Not to worry; at least Pedroia has at last recorded his 200th hit of the season, so it’s not all bad news.
TAKE A PETS
ME REPEAT
PANTSPANTS
@Tryagain,
Tryagain wrote:
TAKE A PETS
ME REPEAT
PANTSPANTS
Take a step backwards
Repeat after me
It's all pants....
OH MY BLUE........ no no no
@Izzie,
Pedroia's a hitting machine!! What do you think Try, will he get the AL- MVP?
Izzie
no ways it ways = no two ways about it
you cont ol r = you are out of control
and……
E
P
A
H
S Mister! = shape up mister
oops...sorry Izzie, I think you might have meant those for Try
Since no one left a math question....how about this one?
(14/x+2) - (1/x-4) = 1
Solve for x
That one shouldn't be too hard
See that ^ up there, that is basic algebra. Enjoy your day or night
@Stormwatch,
StormyGal
no ways it ways = no two ways about it
you cont ol r = you are out of control
and……
E
P
A
H
S Mister! = shape up mister
that's two of us that said it now
Where'd that Mark go a????????
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Stormy; I think he can pull it off!
Actually
Lzzie; it was a ‘pair of pants…So that’s coco then!
I think I have found Mark…
You come across Mark digging a deep hole. "How deep is your hole" you ask. He replies "You'll have to guess but I can tell you that I'm 2 meters (200cm) tall".
You then say "How much deeper are you going?" He answers, "I am half done. When the hole is done my head will be twice as far below ground as it is now above ground."
How deep is the
current hole in centimeters
@Tryagain,
This riddle seems anti-American somehow, not quite sure why...
(I don't do metric on the weekend, and I doubt this one keeps that long)
Rocky wrote, “This riddle seems anti-American somehow, not quite sure why...”
Interesting observation: In 1866, Congress legalized its use…
The Metric System in the United States
Article I, Section 8 of the U. S. Constitution gives Congress the power to "fix the standard of weights and measures" for the nation. The First Congress, meeting in 1789, took up the question of weights and measures, and had the metric system been available at that time it might have been adopted. What actually happened is that Thomas Jefferson, who was then serving as the first Secretary of State, submitted a report proposing a decimal-based system with a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar names for the units.
Jefferson's system actually resembles the metric system in many ways. Its biggest shortcoming is that Jefferson didn't hit on the idea of using prefixes to create names for multiples of units. Consequently, his system was burdened with a long list of names. For example, he divided his basic distance unit, the foot (it was slightly shorter than the traditional foot) into 10 inches. Each inch was divided into 10 lines, and each line into 10 points. For larger distances, 10 feet equalled a decade, 100 feet was a rood, 1000 feet a furlong, and there were 10 000 feet in a mile (making the Jeffersonian mile about twice as long as the traditional mile). His basic volume unit was the cubic foot, which he proposed to call a bushel (it was about 3/4 the size of a traditional bushel). The basic weight unit was the ounce, defined so that a bushel of water weighed 1000 ounces. (This is very similar to the metric system, in which a liter of water weighs 1000 grams).
Congress gave this plan serious consideration, but because it lacked independent support from other scientists it was easy to criticize. Ultimately, Congress took no action. This left Americans with a version of the traditional English weights and measures, including:
Distance measurements identical to those of the 1592 Act of Parliament, the traditional avoirdupois system of weight measurements, a system of measurement for dry volumes based on the "Winchester" bushel used in England for wheat and corn since the late Middle Ages, and a system of measurement for liquid volumes based on the English wine gallon of 1707.
It is remarkable that Congress never established this traditional system, or any other system, as the mandatory system of weights and measures for the United States. In 1832, Congress directed the Treasury Department to standardize the measures used by customs officials at U.S. ports. The Department adopted a report describing the traditional system, and Congress allowed this report to stand without taking any formal action.
This is the closest the U.S. has ever come to adopting a single system of measurement. Ironically, the U.S. missed two opportunities in 1832. Americans could have adopted the metric system, which was then at an uncertain point in its history; or they could have decided to align their measurements with the British Imperial measures established by Parliament in 1824 and thus created a possible alternative to the metric system in international commerce.
The metric system originated in France in the 1790's, a few years after Jefferson's proposals. During the mid-nineteenth century, as expanding trade demanded a consistent set of measurements, use of the metric system spread through continental Europe. As they imported goods from Europe or exported goods to Europe, Americans became increasingly aware of the metric system. In 1866, Congress legalized its use in an act reading:
It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system.
As a result, the U. S. has been "metric" since 1866, but only in the sense that Americans have been free since that time to use the metric system as much as they like. Although there has always been popular resistance to changing the traditional measures, the metric system has actually enjoyed strong support from American business leaders and scientists since the late nineteenth century.
In 1875, the U.S. was one of the original signers of the Treaty of the Meter, which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). This agency administers the International System of Units, the official version of the metric system. American scientists and engineers have always been among the leaders in improving, extending, and revising the metric system. The general public, however, has lagged far behind.
In 1893, Thomas C. Mendenhall, then Superintendent of Weights and Measures in the Treasury Department, concluded that the metric standards, the official meter and kilogram bars supplied by BIPM, should become the standards for all measurement in the U.S. With the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, this decision was made and published; it has since been called the Mendenhall Order. The order didn't mean that metric units had to be used, but since that time the customary units have been defined officially in terms of metric standards. Currently, the foot is legally defined to be exactly 0.3048 meter and the pound is legally defined to equal exactly 453.59237 grams.
In 1901, Congress established the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to support technical standards for American industry and commerce, including the maintenance of standards of weight and measurement. In 1964, NBS announced:
Henceforth it shall be the policy of the National Bureau of Standards to use the units of the International System (SI), as adopted by the 11th General Conference of Weights and Measures, except when the use of these units would obviously impair communication or reduce the usefulness of a report.
In the 1970's there was a major effort to increase the use of the metric system, and Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to speed this process along. However, American consumers generally rejected the use of metric units for highway distances, weather reports, and other common measurements, so little was accomplished except for the encouragement of faster metric conversion in various scientific and technical fields.
In 1988, Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, which designates "the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce." Among many other things, the act requires federal agencies to use metric measurements in nearly all of their activities, although there are still exceptions allowing traditional units to be used in documents intended for consumers. The real purpose of the act was to improve the competitiveness of American industry in international markets by encouraging industries to design, produce, and sell products in metric units.
The debate over metric conversion continues. Although metric units have become more familiar and more widely used, the United States remains a "soft metric" country. (The phrase "soft metric" refers to designations like "1 pint (473 mL)" in which metric equivalents are simply tagged onto traditional measurements.)
Proponents of the metric system in the U.S. often claim that "the United States, Liberia, and Burma (or Myanmar) are the only countries that have not adopted the metric system." This statement is not correct with respect to the U.S., and probably it isn't correct with respect to Liberia and Burma, either. The U.S. adopted the metric system in 1866.
What the U.S. has failed to do is to restrict or prohibit the use of traditional units in areas touching the ordinary citizen: construction, real estate transactions, retail trade, and education.
The U.S. has not made the crucial transition from "soft metric" to "hard metric", so that "1 pint (473 mL)" becomes "500 mL (1.057 pint)", with the traditional equivalent fading into smaller type sizes and finally disappearing.
Mark:
METRIC HOLE
150cm (your head is 50cm above ground)
when complete, the hole will be 300cm, and your head will be 100cm below ground 2x-2 = 2(2-x)
That answer is far too simple; if you are into convoluted, then this is what you seek…
Mark is 2m tall (200cm). The distance between his head and the ground is equal to 200 - H, where H is the current depth of the hole. The depth of the final hole F is equal to twice the current depth or 2H. When the hole is done, Mark's head will be below ground a distance of F - 200 or 2H - 200.
He says that the distance below ground when the hole is done is twice as much as his head is above ground now. This turns into:
(F - 200) / 2 = 200 - H
F = 2H
(2H - 200) / 2 = 200 - H =
2H - 200 = 400 - 2H
4H = 600
H = 150
This means that the hole is currently 150cm deep. The goal is 300cm. Mark’s head is 50cm (200 - 150) above ground now and will be 100cm (300 - 200) below ground when he is done.
We await Rock’s answer using: …”I can tell you that I'm
6.56167979 feet tall”
HISTORY
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GET
IT +
Don’t
Don’t+
Bad Bad
@Tryagain,
HISTORY
HISTORY
HISTORY
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History repeating itself ???
GET
IT
Get Over It
No takers on the math question huh? How about this one then?
Can you give me the quadratic function y = x*- 8x + 11 in vertex form. What is the vertex of the function graph? Still basic algebra. You won't find the answer on the internet that I know of because I made the problem up.
mark? rap? Try?
Missy:
Bad Bad = toobad
Lzzie:
HISTORY
HISTORY
HISTORY
HISTORY
History repeating itself
GET
IT
Get Over It
Hi TTH, nice riddles but way outta my league, try posting then in the Math section (if such a thing exists) and see what response you get. The problem may well be; too easy for some " too difficult for others. Such is the lot of a question setter " but don’t give up; they are good.
CJAUSSTE
THOUGHT AN
GO IT IT IT IT
@Tryagain,
CJAUSSTE = just in case
THOUGHT AN = an after thought
GO IT IT IT IT = go for it
Try, I'm sure you have been keeping up with the Sox and know that they have tied the Rays for first place in the AL-East....right?
Stormy:
CJAUSSTE = just in case
THOUGHT AN = an after thought
GO IT IT IT IT = go for it
Storming!
“
Try, I'm sure you have been keeping up with the Sox and know that they have tied the Rays for first place in the AL-East....right?”
There has been a history of bad blood between the sides going way back: I remember back in 02 when Trot Nixon flipped his bat at Rays pitcher Ryan Rupe in the second inning after Rupe hit Nomar Garciaparra and Shea Hillenbrand with pitches.
Nixon claimed it was an accident, but jawed with Rupe during the incident. Red Sox starter Frank Castillo retaliated as well, hitting Randy Winn, but was not ejected. Nixon and Castillo received four- and five-game suspensions, respectively.
Castillo struck out six while allowing three hits in eight innings and was the winning pitcher in the emotional 2-0 victory.
GoooooO SOX!!!
Good times……
You have an analog clock whose face is number in a circle from 1 to 12, with 12 facing "north", 3 "east", 6 "south", and 9 "west".
You are allowed to draw two lines which go all the way across the clock face, and divide the numbers on the clock into 3 or 4 groups depending on if the lines intersect.
How can you draw the lines so that the numbers in each group add up to the same sum
Oh, okay Try (me in the math section omg, I don't think so
)
I will give thoh your best okay
Hoping to join in again some day soon and Try, you better not be thinking
< that
Hope you all have a great day!!!
@TTH,
TTH wrote:
Quote:(14/x+2) - (1/x-4) = 1
Solve for x
As written, the answer is:
x = -13/5
If it was intended to be:
14/(x+2) - 1/(x-4) = 1
then there are two answers:
x = 5 and x = 10
