Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 02/27/04
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
David Barnett/JUB Engineers Inc
Liv Jensen
Chris Park/Schiess & Associates
UPCOMING EVENTS:
● National Engineers Week, February 22 -
28, 2004
● ISPE State MATHCOUNTS Competition - Boise
- March 6, 2004
● Continuing Education Seminar, Design of
Waste Containment and Closure Systems, BSU, March 24, 2004, For additional
information: Call Joseph Sener, College of Engineering, Civil Engineering
Department, at 208-426-4814 or visit their web site at
http://coen.boisestate.edu/ssgmsd/home.htm
● IBPEPLS Board Meeting, April 30 and May
1, 2004
● NSPE 2004 Convention and Expo, July 8 -
10, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii
ISPE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE UPDATE
For those of you who might have missed NSPE’s February Engineering Times, ISPE
got some publicity in the journals ‘Stateline’ Section. Chapter Presidents might
want to circulate this throughout your local professional community to impress
on the non-members that ISPE is out there helping to fight and defend the
engineering profession.
A USEFUL WEB SITE: ENGINEERING REFERENCE INFO
eFunda bills itself as a helpful aid to engineers who need to ferret out
a formula or engineering fact that has been wrapped in cobwebs since last used:
http://www.efunda.com.
eFunda provides an online resource where engineering professionals can quickly
find a variety of information to aid in the solution of design problems. Instead
of searching reference books, log on to eFunda.
https://nspe.salaries.com/pls/nspep/survey_frontend.homepage
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's
edition of the Friday Update!
Alex In The Big Apple
One of the top sports stories has been the deal that sent Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod)
to the big apple. The New York Yankees are known for spending money to get great
players, and this was no exception. However, A-Rod’s former team is paying money
for this deal, too. The Texas Rangers will still have to pay $67 million of the
$179 million Rodriguez is still owed for the remainder of his former 10-year
deal. What percent of the $179 million is A-Rod owed?
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Thought of by some to be the greatest player in baseball, A-Rod will be joining
the team of another baseball favorite, Derek Jeter. Last year, A-Rod’s batting
average was .294 and Jeter’s was .324. Currently, an A-Rod Yankees jersey is
selling for $99.99. If a player’s previous year’s batting average is
proportional to the cost of his jersey, for what price would Jeter’s Yankees
jersey be selling?
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A-Rod’s batting average of .298 in 2003 came from 607 at-bats. (The batting
average is the ratio of hits per at-bats.) If 16.57% of A-Rod’s hits were
doubles, how many doubles did he have last year? Express your answer to the
nearest whole number.
Answer to last week's problem:
If there are no leap years involved, then a particular date, let’s say 2/16,
will fall on a Monday one year, and then the next year it will be on a Tuesday.
This is because there are 365 days, which is 7 × 52 with 1 day left over.
Therefore the date moves ahead one day of the week each year. So it would seem
that 2/16 would be on Tuesday in 2005, on Wednesday in 2006 and on Thursday in
2007. The only other thing to consider is that there is an extra day between
2/16/04 and 2/16/05 because of 2/29/04. So the actual progression is Monday in
2004, Wednesday in 2005, Thursday in 2006 and Friday in 2007.
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In a 1000-year period measured in 365-day years, there would be 365,000 days. If
a 1000-year period were measured in 365.24219-day years, there would be
365,242.19 days. This is a difference of 242 days, to the nearest whole number.
At about 750 years, January 1 would be feeling like July 1 if we kept a 365-day
year all the time!! Over a 1000-year period, we would want to add an extra day
every 1000 ÷ 242 = 4.1332 = 4 years, to the nearest whole number.
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It would seem that there would have to be at least one leap year, since this is
a period longer than four years. However, the six-year span from 2097 to 2103
will not have any leap years (since 2100 will not be a leap year)!
If you want to see last week's problem again, click on
http://www.mathcounts.org/Queries/POW_Archive.taf?_function=detail&Q_A_uid1=482&_UserReference=E09A4D0624488D73403B931C
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