Question : Our school system

XSlayerALE · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:28 pm

I am more visual than symbolic :mrgreen:

Acolyte · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:25 am **Posts:** 9413

XSlayerALE wrote:

I am more visual than symbolic :mrgreen:

So why do you have 10 little lines per 6 inches? Or is the 5 wide just an arbitrary to represent the trunk? If so, wouldn't a visual person put 6 rows of lines rather than 2?

e.g.

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Seems to me what you have done is do a symbolic visual presentation. :lol:

gypsywitch · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:38 pm

I drew mine out - a tree with markers at each foot, with a star at each half point.. That's when I got the 30 mins! I tried putting it into an equation.. didn't work for me! LOL

Stirky · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:40 pm

Or never! If the catapillar keeps falling back 6 inches every time it gets to 1 foot, then it'll never get above 1 foot :lol:

vision-master · **Joined:** Sat May 10, 2008 9:45 pm **Posts:** 17294

Ha! good one Homes......

XSlayerALE · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:51 pm

Acolyte wrote:

..... wouldn't a visual person put 6 rows of lines rather than 2?

not if i am counting the spaces not the lines in between them ....

Acolyte · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:25 am **Posts:** 9413

Stirky wrote:

Or never! If the catapillar keeps falling back 6 inches every time it gets to 1 foot, then it'll never get above 1 foot :lol:

You're right. It DOES say that, doesn't it. Stirky passes and we all fail. Bloody bug keeps sliding and climbing from 1 ft back to 6" and up again. ROFL

XSlayerALE · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:56 pm

Patrick D. wrote:

.....It takes it 2 minutes to climb 1 Foot, ...

it does not, you gob target. The statement denotes relative distance from where it started.

You're just mad coz I got a math problem right.... :lol:

Acolyte wrote:

I wouldn't mind betting the teacher took that from a text somewhere. Anyone who could look at that question and not even get a reasonable approximation wouldn't be making questions up, they'd be copying them.

Woe unto the (mis)Education system.

Its even in the internet

http://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework ... 59553.html

AnotherGeneric · **Joined:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:41 am **Posts:** 3322

Patrick D. wrote:

My kid comes home from school with some stupid work sheet: And i need an answer or your answer: The caterpillar is trying to crawl up the tree. It takes it 2 minutes to climb 1 Foot, but it falls back 6 inches each time it reaches 1 foot. How long will it take the caterpillar to crawl to the top of the 8 foot tree? There answer is suppose to be 96 minutes. I say the caterpillar goes 4 minutes a foot which would be 4 x 8 = 32 minutes. What do you come up with?

No, everyone here is wrong.

"It takes it 2 minutes to climb 1 foot."

Got it

"but it falls back 6 inches each time it reaches 1 foot."

Irrelevant to the question of the problem as we have already concluded it only takes it 2 minutes to reach 1 foot.

2 minutes multiplied by 8 feet is 16 minutes.

:twisted:

Acolyte · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:25 am **Posts:** 9413

AnotherGeneric wrote:

Patrick D. wrote:

My kid comes home from school with some stupid work sheet: And i need an answer or your answer: The caterpillar is trying to crawl up the tree. It takes it 2 minutes to climb 1 Foot, but it falls back 6 inches each time it reaches 1 foot. How long will it take the caterpillar to crawl to the top of the 8 foot tree? There answer is suppose to be 96 minutes. I say the caterpillar goes 4 minutes a foot which would be 4 x 8 = 32 minutes. What do you come up with?

No, everyone here is wrong.

"It takes it 2 minutes to climb 1 foot."

Got it

"but it falls back 6 inches each time it reaches 1 foot."

Irrelevant to the question of the problem as we have already concluded it only takes it 2 minutes to reach 1 foot.

2 minutes multiplied by 8 feet is 16 minutes.

:twisted:

Yeah... but no. That 6 inch slide back IS relevant. It means in actual fact the caterpillar can only achieve 6 inches in 2 minutes.

I'm a bit puzzled at your response. Perhaps the (mis)education system has been bad for longer than I thought?

Shu · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:16 pm

But it's 1 foot of 1-8 feet, not 1 foot of half feet between 1-8.

AnotherGeneric · **Joined:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:41 am **Posts:** 3322

Acolyte wrote:

Yeah... but no. That 6 inch slide back IS relevant. It means in actual fact the caterpillar can only achieve 6 inches in 2 minutes.

I'm a bit puzzled at your response. Perhaps the (mis)education system has been bad for longer than I thought?

The 6 inch slip has already been calculated into the 2 minutes for each foot.

Acolyte · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:25 am **Posts:** 9413

XSlayerALE wrote:

Acolyte wrote:

..... wouldn't a visual person put 6 rows of lines rather than 2?

not if i am counting the spaces not the lines in between them ....

And were you?

Be honest now... :lol:

Mr.Whitmore · **Joined:** Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:53 pm **Posts:** 5038

How long does it take the caterpillar to fall back 6 inches?

Acolyte · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:25 am **Posts:** 9413

AnotherGeneric wrote:

The 6 inch slip has already been calculated into the 2 minutes for each foot.

But that is specifically stated not to be the case...

Quote:

It takes it 2 minutes to climb 1 Foot, but it falls back 6 inches each time it reaches 1 foot.

You're trying to calculate in the slide as it crawls, but it is not how the problem is worded.

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