Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 05/07/04
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Jean Margulieux/Student
David Waite/GeoTek Inc
UPCOMING EVENTS:
● ISPE Board Meeting, May 11, 2004
● NSPE 2004 Convention and Expo, July 8 -
10, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii
● NSPE Western and Pacific Regional
Meeting, September 17-18, 2004, Coeur d'Alene, ID
MEDIA COVERAGE:
ISPE is working to gain positive publicity throughout the state. We will let you
know when stories appear in the future. If you see anything run in your area,
please take a moment to let us know at
ispe@rmci.net
http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004405020308
MATHCOUNTS ON ESPN
The MATHCOUNTS Foundation is pleased to announce that, for the second year, ESPN
will be producing an hour-long program on the MATHCOUNTS National Competition.
This television program will air on ESPN2, June 3 at noon ET.
Focused primarily on the drama of the Countdown Round, the program will
highlight the energy and excitement of the Mathletes® as they test their math
and communication skills. Similar to last year, we expect this to be a
compelling television program. Don't miss your chance to share in the magic of
the 2004 MATHCOUNTS National Competition in your own home!
The fact that ESPN is covering the National Competition speaks volumes about
MATHCOUNTS and public awareness and interest in student achievement through all
forms of competition. Congratulations!
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's
edition of the Friday Update!
The Last Week With Your Friends
This week is the airing of the much-anticipated finale of Friends. Due to the
extremely large audience NBC is counting on, advertising time during the final
episode is selling for $2 million per 30-second spot. General Electric (NBC’s
parent corporation) is one of the companies said to be purchasing this airtime.
How many 57-cent General Electric light bulbs are equivalent to the cost of this
30-second commercial? Express your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Though many are claiming that this is the end of the best comedy in history,
those folks might be forgetting some of the oldies, but goodies. Friends is
expected to have 50 million viewers, however, check out the number of
finale-viewers of these three hits: Seinfeld had 76.2 million viewers, Cheers
has 80 million viewers, and M*A*S*H had 105.4 million viewers. How much lower
than the arithmetic mean of these three hits is the expected viewership of
Friends?
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Fans of Friends will at least be getting one of their “friends” back next
season. We’ll still get to hang out with Joey Tribbiani every week during his
show Joey! They may have left out his last name in the title of the show, but we
can still have fun with it…in how many distinguishable orders can the nine
letters in “Tribbiani” be arranged?
Answer to last week's problem:
First, we need to determine how much faster the winning man ran the race.
Subtracting the times we see this difference is13 minutes, 50 seconds. However,
because the woman started 29 minutes ahead of the man, we must subtract this
time from 29 minutes and we get 15 minutes, 10 seconds.
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The difference between the first and thirteenth times is 15 minutes, 8 seconds.
This is equivalent to 908 seconds. If the first 13 times form an arithmetic
sequence, then the common difference was added to the winner’s time a total of
12 times to get to the thirteenth place time. Dividing 908 by 12 gives us 75 and
2/3 seconds between each of the 13 consecutive male finishers. The tenth place
finisher would then have a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, 37 seconds +
9(75.6666667) seconds = 2 hours, 10 minutes, 37 seconds + 11 minutes,21 seconds
= 2 hours, 21 minutes, 58 seconds.
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Since there were 80 pounds at each of 26 stops, that’s 80 × 26 = 2080 pounds! A
ton is equivalent to 2000 pounds, so we see that the ice weighs more than 100%
of a ton. Performing 2080 ÷ 2000, we see that it is actually 104% of one ton.
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=492&_UserReference=81C45C3D04C3A936409684BD
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