Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update – 08/24/07
UPCOMING EVENTS:
• October 26, 2007 -
PE and PS Examinations Boise, Idaho
• October 27, 2007 -
FS (aka LSIT) Examination Boise,
Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• October 27, 2007 -
FE (aka EIT) Examinations Boise,
Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
VISIT THE NEW ISPE
CAREER CENTER!
This Career Center is available to members
searching for employment opportunities in our industry and our geographical
region.
We recognize that searching for employment opportunities within our specialized
niche can be time consuming and frustrating. In providing this
Career Center
for our users we are streamlining the process by focusing on our specific
industry and offering jobs targeted to our members.
The
Career Center is easy to use and unique
in its ability to
• provide a highly targeted focus on employment opportunities within our
industry and geography;
• offer anonymous resume posting and job application—enabling job candidates to
stay connected to the employment market while maintaining full control over
their confidential information;
• deliver an advanced Job Alert system that notifies candidates of new
opportunities matching your own pre-selected criteria;
• provide access to industry-specific jobs often not seen on sites such as
Monster, CareerBuilder, or HotJobs.
Your new
Career Center is the perfect place to
begin searching for your next employment opportunity.
Employers:
We recognize that searching for candidates within our very specialized niche can
be time consuming and challenging. The ISPE
Career Center
is our solution. In providing this service we are streamlining the recruitment
process by focusing on our specific industry and offering employers and
recruiters a unique set of candidates targeted toward your organization’s needs.
This new
Career Center is an ideal place to begin
searching for your next employee.
ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF OUR
CURRENT
SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS:
J-U-B Engineers Inc
Mason & Stanfield Inc
Progressive Engineering Group Inc
Please consider joining these great companies in
becoming an
ISPE Sustaining Organization. ISPE offers the Sustaining
Organization category of membership to enhance the visibility of your commitment
to ISPE and the engineering profession. Your membership will allow us to better
serve the engineering community through promoting engineering and ethics, and
supporting the needs of the engineer including professional development.
If you are interested in becoming a
Sustaining Organization, please
contact the ISPE office at
ispe@idahospe.org.
ANNOUNCING UPDATED
EJCDC CONTRACT
DOCUMENTS!
Newly released 2007 Construction Contract Documents are widely recognized as the
most fair and objective contract documents in the construction, engineering and
design-build industries.
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next
week's edition of the Friday Update!
Summer Road Trip
Susanna and her family are taking a road trip from Washington, DC to Duck, NC.
On the way they stop for lunch in Richmond, VA, which was 106 miles from DC and
174 miles from Duck, NC. They traveled at an average speed of 58 mph from DC to
Richmond and after lunch it then takes them 3 hours and 12 minutes to get to
Duck. What is Susanna’s family’s average speed in miles per hour for the entire
trip from Washington, DC to Duck, NC (disregard the time spent at rest stops,
lunch, etc)? Express your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth.
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On the return trip Susanna’s family decides to stop to take a break in
Williamsburg, VA, which is 126 miles from Duck, NC and 153 miles from Washington
DC. If Susanna’s family drove at a speed of 54 mph from Duck to Williamsburg,
what must their average speed, in mph, be so that their driving time from Duck
to DC is the same as their total driving time was from DC to Duck in the
previous question (disregard the time spent at rest stops, lunch, etc)? Express
your answer as an integer.
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From the first portion of the return trip, by what percentage do they have to
increase the speed for the second portion of the return trip in order to make
the trip from Duck to DC take the same amount of time that the trip from DC to
Duck took in question 1? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
If Barry Bonds ends the season with 760 HRs, then his average HR per year
rate will be 760/21. To figure out how many runs he will hit by the end of his
23rd season, we can set up a proportion:
760/21 = x/23
…cross-multiply…
(760)(23) = (21)(x)
…divide…
17,400/21 = x
x » 832
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To find a percent of change (or difference) you must first find the actual
difference.
Barry’s rate of HRs – Hank’s rate of HRs
760/21 – 755/23 = 1625/483
Now we have to divide the amount of difference by the original rate (aka. Hank’s
rate).
1625/483 = .10249
755/23
Multiplying by 100 and rounding to the tenths place, we see that Barry’s
homerun/year rate is 10.2% greater than Hank’s was.
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(35%)(x) = $250,000
250,000 ÷ 0.35 = $714,285.71, to the nearest cent.
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=1081&z=110
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