Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Geometry involves many interesting analysis. One of the key items is the computation of Surface Area. Another is the Volume of various 3-dimensional shapes.
What is the main difference between these 2 parameters of geometrical study?
Surface Area: The study of total areas on the outer surface. It is what user can ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
In geometry, there are occassions where you have to compute the area of a sector belonging to a circle.
What is this sector about?
Sector is an area of a part of the complete circle. It is not a length!
To understand more, let us do a maths question on finding the sector area.
Question:
Find the ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In geometry, we often come across 2 terms "Perimeter" and "Circumference".
What is the difference between them?
Let us discuss about Perimeter first before comparing the geometrical terms.
The term "Perimeter" refers to the length of the outline of a shape (with clear start and end points).
It is applicable to shapes using straight lines ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Calculator can be used to test for algebra understanding. Make use of it to get the answer for the below.
Maths Question:
I need to multiply 12457 by 3412. But found that the "x" button is faulty. How else can I get the answer?
Hint: Make use of divide.
With some twist of your ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Calculator can be fun, especially with mathematics.
Here, I have an interesting maths question.
Maths Question:
I would like to display the number 27631 on my calculator. However, I discovered the buttons numbered 7 and 3 cannot response.
How am I to display the desired number?
Show me 2 methods, please. :)
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Knowing the concept of area helps solve many applications.
There are occasion where we need to cover a large area using numerous small pieces of similarly sized item.
Example: Numerous small pieces of mat used to cover the floor of a room. "How many of this small pieces of mat is required?" This is a ...
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