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Friday Update – 02/08/08

UPCOMING EVENTS:

ISPE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) LEGISLATIVE OPINION POLL RESULTS
The Idaho Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors will be proposing legislation in the 2008 session to provide the Board the ability to enact Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements for Professional Engineers in the State of Idaho.
The Board of Directors of ISPE has voted to approve a Position Paper which supports the proposed Continuing Professional Development legislation. This Position Paper can be found on the ISPE Website: http://www.idahospe.org/images/Position%20Statement%20111307%20.doc. The ISPE Board wishes for each of its members to have their opinion heard on this matter.

An opinion poll was sent to ISPE members and the results are as follows:

69% of those that responded to the poll support the proposed legislation
31% of those that responded to the poll do not support the proposed legislation


2008 Engineers Week Events

ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR CURRENT SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS:

AHJ Engineers, PC
B & A Engineers, Inc

Briggs Engineering Inc
Delta Engineering Group
Elkhorn Engineers
G & S Structural Engineers
J.M. Miller Engineering, Inc
J-U-B Engineers, Inc
Kittelson & Associates Inc
Land Solutions, Land Surveying & Consulting
Mason & Stanfield, Inc
Materials Testing & Inspection
MWH
Progressive Engineering Group, Inc
Quadrant Consulting, Inc
Rational Technology of Idaho, LLC
Riedesel Engineering, Inc
Schiess & Associates
Stapley Engineering
Terracon
TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc
Walker Engineering

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.

MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's edition of the Friday Update!

Happy Groundhog Day
Every year on February 2nd in Punxsutawney, PA, Groundhog Phil is called upon to predict how much more winter there will be. If Phil sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of winter, but if he does not see his shadow spring is near. In 2006 Phil saw his shadow. If Phil’s shadow was 25 inches long (when he stands on his back legs) at the same time that a 12 foot tree cast a 15 foot shadow, how tall was Phil, in inches, in 2006?
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Groundhog Phil’s cousin Henry lives in Moundsville with his family. At the beginning of 2006, Moundsville had a population of 2500 groundhogs but by the beginning of 2008 the population had grown to 3025 groundhogs. If the annual percentage of growth was the same in 2006 as it was in 2007, how many groundhogs lived in Moundsville at the beginning of 2007?
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Groundhog Henry is digging a new tunnel in a flat field outside of his home. He starts by digging 3 ft straight down and then digs north 4 times the distance that he dug down. At this point Henry digs straight west for 17 ft before running into a boulder. Since he doesn’t know how big the boulder is, he backs up 1 ft and digs 3 ft straight up to the surface. How far is the end of Henry’s tunnel from the beginning of Henry’s tunnel?

Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
First we need to figure out how much standing space there is by subtracting the area of the Reflecting Pool (in sq feet) from the area of the mall (in sq feet).

(5280) = 3300 feet

(5280) = 1320 feet

3300 × 1320 = 4,356,000 sq feet

2029 × 167 = 338,843 sq feet

4,356,000 – 338,843 = 4,117,157 sq feet

Now we’ll divide the square feet of space by the number of people.

4,117,157 ÷ 250,000 = 16.1 sq feet, to the nearest tenth
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Since The King Center is open from 9am – 5pm, it is open for 8 hours.

(8 hours per day)(365 days per year) = 2920 hours per year

650,000 ÷ 2920 = 222.6 people per hour, to the nearest tenth
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In a regular year there are 356 days, so from January 21, 1984 to January 21, 2008 there were 24 full years (not including an adjustment for leap years yet).

(24 years)(365 days per year) = 8760 days

From November 2nd, 1983 to December 1st, 1983 there are 29 days and from December 1st, 1983 to January 1st of 1984 there were 31 days. Additionally there were 20 days from January 1st, 1984 to January 21st, 1984.

29 + 31 + 20 = 80 days

That brings us to 8840 days, before considering leap years.

The years 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988 and 1984 are also leap years so we’ll have to add 6 days (one for each leap year) to our total.

8840 + 6 = 8846 days

If you want to see last week's problem again, click http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=1160&z=110



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