Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update – 09/22/06
UPCOMING EVENTS:
• September 28, 2006 –
ASCE Southern Idaho Section Noon
Meeting
• 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
• February 6 – 10, 2007 –
Idaho Society of Professional Land
Surveyors Conference - Coeur d' Alene Casino - Worley, Idaho
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CONTINUING
EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES – FALL WEB SEMINARS
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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!
Digital Camera
Simon’s digital camera has a storage card with a capacity of 32 megabytes. A
byte is a unit of storage space. Byte multiples are based on powers of 2 and are
commonly expressed as a decimal number rounded to a power of 10. A megabyte
(abbreviated MB) is 2 to the 20th power or 1,048,576 bytes in decimal notation.
This number is rounded to the nearest million so one megabyte is interpreted to
mean 1,000,000 bytes, a little less than the 1,048,576 bytes that are available
in a megabyte. Each picture Simon takes requires 2.6 MB of storage space. How
many complete pictures can his storage card hold?
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Simon currently has 10 different pictures on his storage card. He chooses 8 of
the pictures at random. How many different combinations of 8 different pictures
are possible?
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Simon plans to use the 8 pictures he chose in a two-page display with each page
containing 4 pictures organized in 2 rows of 2 pictures on each page. How many
different ways can he arrange the 8 pictures?
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Of the 10 pictures on Simon’s storage card, his brother, Marcel, is in 7 of the
pictures and his sister, Danika, is in 5 of the pictures. Marcel or Danika
appears in each of the pictures. In how many of the 10 pictures do Marcel and
Danika both appear?
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
In 1940, 33 first class letters could have been sent for one dollar, 1.00/0.03 =
33 1/3. In 2006 you can only send 2 first class letters for one dollar,
1.00/0.39 = 2 22/39. The positive difference between the number of first class
letters a person could have sent for one dollar in 1940 and the number of first
class letters you can send for one dollar in 2006 is 33 – 2 = 31 first class
letters.
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The cost of a sheet of 50 3-cent commemorative stamps is 50 x 0.03 = $1.50. The
cost of a sheet of 20 39-cent commemorative stamps is 20 x 0.39 = $7.80. The
ratio of the cost of a sheet of 50 3-cent commemorative stamps to the cost of 20
39-cent commemorative stamps is 1.50/7.80= 5/26.
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The first set of 5 consecutive values Robert can make using 5-cent and 8-cent
stamps is: 28, (4 x 5 +8); 29, (5 + 3 x 8); 30, (6 x 5); 31, (3 x 5 + 2 x 8);
and 32, (4 x 8). He can make any value greater than 32 by adding some number of
5-cent stamps to one of these five values. The greatest value of postage that
Robert cannot put on an envelope using 5-cent and 8-cent stamps is 27 cents.
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Marta will purchase 23 new issue commemorative stamps with envelopes at a cost
of $0.75 each. 23 x 0.75 = $17.25.
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=895&z=107
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