From my Quotiki sidebar widget: Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they’ve got nothing to worry about. – Beverly Mickins I’m telling you, there’s magic in these random quote widgets – especially when, [...]
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A Math Problem I’d Love to See Assigned – but Probably Won’t
Saturday, 16 February 2008
Problem: Your school building has 100 rooms. Each room has 32 florescent lights of n wattage. The hallways and bathrooms have an additional 300 florescent lights of the same wattage. These lights are on for an average of ten hours a day. 1. Given the cost per lightbulb run at ten hours a day, how [...]






