Homework Help Thread

[Clemson]

Help! I have a summer reading thing due on Friday and being the idiot I am, I've put it off until now. It wouldn't be a problem if I had the book, but seeing as how all my stuff is packed up so my room could be painted, finding the book is a challenge that I've given up on. Being the logical person I am, I asked my mom what to do since I didn't know. She suggested we try to go to the library and borrow it. Too bad every other kid in this school district must have put it off until the last minute too. They only had 2 of the 30-something books we could choose from and one was like 400 pages long and it looked boring and the other was only avaliable in Spanish. I've found a book on the list that I've already read and I'm hoping I could remember part of it at least but I need some help with the other parts.

So, if anyone has read Torn Thread by Anne Icaacs, help would be GREATLY appreciated.

The questions are;
1.Which character was your favorite? Compare this character to yourself or to one of your friends.
I've got this one done, but I need the name of the main character. It's a female and she has an older sister with her in the concetration camp, if that places her.

2.Were you able to guess what was going to happen in the end? What clues did you use?
Got that one done easily, I went with the easy "I couldn't guess" answer.

3.What is the problem or goal the character has to solve or obtain?
Could the goal be surving the camp, helping her sister, and finding her family?

4.What did the author have to know to write this book? What does the author like or dislike?
I've got this one too, but I need to know the relation between the author and the two main characters (the sisters). If I remember correctly, it said it on the inside back cover in the "get to know the author" thing.

5.What lesson does the book teach?
Got that one already.

Thank you guys soooo much in advance!

[Pteri Sage]

If there are any personages out there who feel like helping me with Physics please AIM me @ Dactulus YIM me @ crowneddrake or MSNIM me @ mailto:hork_bajar@hotmail.com *goes to pound head on wall*

[M. Bison]

If there are any personages out there who feel like helping me with Physics please AIM me @ Dactulus YIM me @ crowneddrake or MSNIM me @ mailto:hork_bajar@hotmail.com *goes to pound head on wall*

What kind of Physics would it be? Mechanics? E&M?

[Pteri Sage]

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[Shoyru_Lover]

Help! I have a summer reading thing due on Friday and being the idiot I am, I've put it off until now. It wouldn't be a problem if I had the book, but seeing as how all my stuff is packed up so my room could be painted, finding the book is a challenge that I've given up on. Being the logical person I am, I asked my mom what to do since I didn't know. She suggested we try to go to the library and borrow it. Too bad every other kid in this school district must have put it off until the last minute too. They only had 2 of the 30-something books we could choose from and one was like 400 pages long and it looked boring and the other was only avaliable in Spanish. I've found a book on the list that I've already read and I'm hoping I could remember part of it at least but I need some help with the other parts.

So, if anyone has read Torn Thread by Anne Icaacs, help would be GREATLY appreciated.

The questions are;
1.Which character was your favorite? Compare this character to yourself or to one of your friends.
I've got this one done, but I need the name of the main character. It's a female and she has an older sister with her in the concetration camp, if that places her.

2.Were you able to guess what was going to happen in the end? What clues did you use?
Got that one done easily, I went with the easy "I couldn't guess" answer.

3.What is the problem or goal the character has to solve or obtain?
Could the goal be surving the camp, helping her sister, and finding her family?

4.What did the author have to know to write this book? What does the author like or dislike?
I've got this one too, but I need to know the relation between the author and the two main characters (the sisters). If I remember correctly, it said it on the inside back cover in the "get to know the author" thing.

5.What lesson does the book teach?
Got that one already.

Thank you guys soooo much in advance!

Clemson, I feel for you, but you really gotta do the reading. Trust me, it helps hardcore. The only way you can get quick answers is to collaborate with your friends. Let this be a lesson in learning ^_^

[one_up_mushroom]

I don't think this is really needed since school is over/almost over for many of us.

I just started it again!!! ..o well no taks 4 me then

[Alex]

I don't think this is really needed since school is over/almost over for many of us.

I just started it again!!! ..o well no taks 4 me then

Well, Jill did post that at the end of May... it's 3 months later now

[jellyoflight]

We haven't had much homework...just covering our history books, finding some spellings in english and writing a paragraph in french...Oh the bliss of year 8...

[Ammer]

Can anyone tell me what a Single Effect is? In reference to English? Thanks.

[Hpfan36]

My Algebra teacher gave us this question today, "Why does the division of fractions algorithm work?" and we have to write a paper on it. It's due tomorrow.. and I can't find anything. We're supposed to tell why it works, and not how it's done... the reasons behind it.. why changing the divison sign to a multiplication sign and inversing the fraction works.... All the websites I've been to only tell how, not why. Someone please help me.

Right now I'm IMing my friends and stuff, we all haven't found anything. -_-

[M. Bison]

My Algebra teacher gave us this question today, "Why does the division of fractions algorithm work?" and we have to write a paper on it. It's due tomorrow.. and I can't find anything. We're supposed to tell why it works, and not how it's done... the reasons behind it.. why changing the divison sign to a multiplication sign and inversing the fraction works.... All the websites I've been to only tell how, not why. Someone please help me.

Right now I'm IMing my friends and stuff, we all haven't found anything. -_-

Let x = (a/b) / (c/d).

Because multiplication is the inverse operation of division, multiply each side of the equation by (c/d) to get: x(c/d) = a/b which is the same as xc/d = a/b.

Cross-multiply to get: bcx = ad. Solve for x to get x = ad/bc.

This is consistent with (a/b) / (c/d) = a/b * d/c = ad/bc.

[Hpfan36]

My Algebra teacher gave us this question today, "Why does the division of fractions algorithm work?" and we have to write a paper on it. It's due tomorrow.. and I can't find anything. We're supposed to tell why it works, and not how it's done... the reasons behind it.. why changing the divison sign to a multiplication sign and inversing the fraction works.... All the websites I've been to only tell how, not why. Someone please help me.

Right now I'm IMing my friends and stuff, we all haven't found anything. -_-

Let x = (a/b) / (c/d).

Because multiplication is the inverse operation of division, multiply each side of the equation by (c/d) to get: x(c/d) = a/b which is the same as xc/d = a/b.

Cross-multiply to get: bcx = ad. Solve for x to get x = ad/bc.

This is consistent with (a/b) / (c/d) = a/b * d/c = ad/bc.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it. But that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I need to know why all of those work, not how you do it... XD

[M. Bison]

That is an algebraic proof as to why (a/b) / (c/d) = ad/bc. Look at it more carefully.
The proof might also be easier to follow if you write it out by hand.

[Hpfan36]

That is an algebraic proof as to why (a/b) / (c/d) = ad/bc. Look at it more carefully.
The proof might also be easier to follow if you write it out by hand.

Yes... I know. But that's not what my teacher wants. She wants us to give her the reason why you do all of those things. Why you change the division sign to it's inverse operation, why you change the second fraction into it's reciprocal... why it gets you the answer.

I may have just confused you... x.X But she doesn't want how to do the problem, she wants the reasons it works behind it all. Why you have to change the division sign to a multiplication one, etc.

... x.x

[M. Bison]

That is an algebraic proof as to why (a/b) / (c/d) = ad/bc. Look at it more carefully.
The proof might also be easier to follow if you write it out by hand.

Yes... I know. But that's not what my teacher wants. She wants us to give her the reason why you do all of those things. Why you change the division sign to it's inverse operation, why you change the second fraction into it's reciprocal... why it gets you the answer.

I may have just confused you... x.X But she doesn't want how to do the problem, she wants the reasons it works behind it all. Why you have to change the division sign to a multiplication one, etc.

... x.x

You do "all those things" because they are 100% consistent (read: equivalent) with the algebraic way of solving for the answer. And I just demonstrated the algebraic way to solve it.

Is this Algebra I or Algebra II that you're taking right now? If you're in Algebra I, that might be the reason for you not understanding my proof. But then again, if you're only beginning Algebra I, I don't see why your teacher would assign something like this.