Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 10/21/05
UPCOMING EVENTS:
• October 28, 2005 - PE and PLS
Examinations - Boise, Idaho
• October 29, 2005 FE (aka EIT)
Examinations - Boise, Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• November 5, 2005 - Western &
Pacific Region Annual Meeting - Helena, MT
• January 20 - 23, 2006 - NSPE
Winter Meeting - Washington DC
• March 16 - 17, 2006 - ISPE
Annual Meeting - Boise, ID
• July 6 - 11, 2006 - NSPE Summer
Meeting - Boston, MA
Help Wanted….
King County WA is seeking candidates for a Project Manager for the
Brightwater Treatment Project. For further information please contact Ted Koska,
Executive Search Services – ESS285, Voice/Message: (360) 664-1950, E-mail:
ESSResumes@dop.wa.gov
New Information Service Connects Members With Legislators
NSPE has launched its new
Legislative Action Center, which encourages political participation by
connecting NSPE members to their elected officials. This grassroots Web site
will allow members to educate themselves on salient legislative issues and to
take action by contacting their elected officials. The Web site can be accessed
through Government Relations.
State-specific grassroots Web sites administered by each state society are also
in the works.
The site features
• current information on legislation affecting engineers and NSPE’s position on
the legislation;
• voting records and "scorecards";
• a means of contacting federal, state, and local elected officials; federal and
state agencies; and national and regional media organizations;
• a means of identifying an individual’s federal, state, and local elected
officials;
• information on elected officials and candidates for office;
• voter registration forms, information on registering to vote, and election
dates; and
• e-mail alerts that can be tailored to users’ geographic region and interest.
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MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's
edition of the Friday Update!
Fall VS. Autumn
As the weather is turning cooler and daylight is arriving later in the morning
and trees are starting to lose their leaves, many of us are noticing that summer
is over and we’re well into fall. Or is it autumn? Mr. Kravis surveyed his
class, and out of 28 students (with every student picking exactly one of the two
options), the ratio of the number of students who called the season "fall" to
the number of students who called the season "autumn" was 3:1. How many students
called the season "fall?"
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If we were now to create a pie chart showing the two groups of students
determined during this initial survey, what would be the degree measure of the
central angle of the sector of the circle representing the students who call the
season "autumn?"
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Mr. Kravis then extended his survey to include the entire school. Every student
responded with the term they use the most (fall or autumn). He found that in
this larger survey of the entire school, the number of students who refer to the
season as "fall" is five times the number of students who refer to the season as
"autumn." What fraction of the total number of students in the school refers to
the season as "autumn?" Express your answer as a common fraction.
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If there are 360 students in the school who answered Mr. Kravis’ survey, how
many students use the term "fall?"
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
Since we are working with the year 2005, we know that the third entry for every
date will be 5. Since 5 is prime, we know that this is the only factor we have
to concern ourselves with. (We're assuming that just having a factor of 1 in
common will not meet our criteria.) Each date must have a month that is
divisible by 5 (which leaves May-5 and October-10), and a day that is divisible
by 5 (which leaves 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30). We see then, that there are 2
months that can each be combined with 6 days, which is a total of 12 dates. This
is only 12 ¸ 365 = 3% of the dates in 2005, to the nearest whole percent.
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If we are using 12 as our base, then we can write the expression 104312 as (3 ´
120) + (4 ´ 121) + (0 ´ 122) + (1 ´ 123). This simplifies to 3 + 48 + 0 + 1728 =
1779 in base 10. Here’s a great site to see some of these conversions and how
they work with higher bases that require more than our 10 digits of 0 through 9:
http://www.efunda.com/units/base_n.cfm?base_from=10.
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Let’s rewrite this expression using the associative property, as well as our
knowledge of the properties of exponents. The expression 32 ´ 27 ´ 56 can become
32 ´ 2 ´ 26 ´ 56 = (32 ´ 2) ´ (26 ´ 56) = (18) ´ (106). Remember that we enjoy
multiplying by powers of 10! For every power of 10, we just add on that number
of zeros. Our simplified value will then have 6 zeros: 18,000,000.
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=736&z=104
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