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Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update – 07/07/06
UPCOMING EVENTS:
• July 6 - 11, 2006 - NSPE Summer Meeting - Boston, MA
• October 27, 2006 - PE and PS
Examinations - Boise, Idaho
• October 28, 2006 - FS (aka
LSIT) Examination - Boise, Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• October 28, 2006 - FE (aka EIT)
Examination - Boise, Idaho. Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Please join ISPE in extending our sincere congratulations to the following
individuals who passed the April 2006 PE Examination:
Daniel P. Ames, Ammon ID - Civil
Benjamin Thomas Blaine, Eagle ID - Mechanical
Ralph Budwig, Moscow ID - Mechanical
Robert Walter Butterfield, Ketchum ID - Civil
Cynthia Jean Bridge Clark, Boise ID - Civil
Natalie Bennion DelRio, Boise ID - Environmental
Charles Dudley Griffin, Idaho Falls ID - Electrical & Computer
Cheryl Gussenhoven, Moscow ID - Civil
Jeff Hall, Meridian ID - Mechanical
Ray Allen Hannah, Idaho Falls ID - Mechanical
Jeffrey E. Hill, Boise ID - Electrical & Computer
Joshua D. Jacobson, Caldwell ID - Civil
David P. Johnson, Rexburg ID - Mechanical
Kasey Kay Ketterling, Wilder ID - Civil
Karl Stanley Kincheloe, Caldwell ID - Mechanical
Michael John Martin, Boise ID - Civil
Bradley S. Niemeyer, Coeur d'Alene ID - Civil
Eric Kenneth Olsen, Coeur d'Alene ID - Civil
John Garrett Ostendorff, Boise ID - Civil
Brian J. Pargman, Boise ID - Mechanical
Ryan W. Peterson, Nampa ID - Civil
Chris Pollow, Twin Falls ID - Mechanical
Jeffrey T. Ryan, Boise ID - Civil
Amy Lavonne Schroeder, Coeur d' Alene ID - Civil
Don E. Sturtevant, Jr., Meridian ID - Mechanical
Kevin Tetz, Boise ID - Civil
Teri Tyler, Idaho Falls ID - Environmental
Brian D. Waddell, Boise ID – Civil
PE:
The Magazine for Professional Engineers
July 2006
NSPE's Legislative Action Center,
a grassroots program brought to you by NSPE, allows you to contact members of
Congress about issues affecting the engineering profession, view a scorecard of
how legislators voted, check the status of legislation important to engineers,
and much more.
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next
week's edition of the Friday Update!
It's JULY!
When the letters of the alphabet are assigned their integer values (A = 1, B
= 2, C = 3, …, Z = 26), the word-product for JULY is the product of the
letter-values for each of the letters in JULY. When the square root of JULY’s
word-product is put into its simplest radical form of a√b, where b has no
perfect-square factors greater than 1, what is the value of b?
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We can also take the word-product of sequences of letters; they don’t
necessarily have to be a word. What sequence of letters has the same
word-product as JULY, but (1) does not contain any of the letters in JULY, (2)
contains the letter N, (3) does not contain any of its letters more than once
and (4) has its letters in alphabetical order?
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Similar to a word-product, a word-sum is the sum of the letter-values for each
of the letters of a sequence. The values of the letters of a particular
four-letter sequence form an arithmetic sequence and this sequence has the same
word-sum as JULY. What is the least possible value of a letter in this
four-letter sequence?
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
Janelle was at the pool a total of 5.75 hours. During this time there were six
adult swims lasting a total of 6(0.25) = 1.5 hours. Therefore, 1.5 ÷ 5.75 = 0.26
or 26% of her time was adult swim time.
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Since 60% (or 48 households) pay the standard $200, this is $9600 in fees. If
30% (or 24 households) receive a 20% discount and only pay $160 each, this
results in an additional $3840, for a total of $9600 + $3840 = $13,440. Thus,
the average membership fee per household is $13,440 ÷ 80 = $168.
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Because the floor slopes steadily and gradually, it doesn’t matter which
horizontal foot of that area we look at. The floor drops five feet, or 60
inches, over that 6-foot portion of the length of the pool. This is 60 ÷ 6 = 10
inches per horizontal foot.
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=872&z=107
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