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- You have until the due date and time (central time) to submit answers to the current challenge.
- One answer per partnership may be submitted.
- At least one correct answer by the due date is necessary for the entire group to receive the challenge's clue.
- You may interact with the enviornment in any way you like. You may also speak to as many people in the environment as you want. Chat, ask them questions, etc. Once you post your end of the conversation, I'll submit their responses to you.
- If a partnership is eliminated, any answer they submit will not be considered.
Good luck.
submitted by Ruby M.
(June 2, 2016 - 11:14 pm)
(June 2, 2016 - 11:14 pm)
Gah, sorry! I keep doing this. No, I know the time... I just haven't been terribly present.
(June 9, 2016 - 10:08 pm)
I walk up to the lady at the bakery and ask: "Say, do you happen to know trig?"
Ruby, you are so evil. When do they teach you this stuff!?!? The last two lines are some sort of trig problem, but on the others I NEED A GIVEN NUMBER FOR ONE OF THE VARIABLES!!!! I'm only halfway through Algebra 1! I can't give you the actual number that I need! And which variable am I supposed to solve for?!?! I can only put one number into a Red/Green/Blue color generator thingie!!!!
(June 8, 2016 - 11:48 am)
Supper cruddy panel redraw of the way I feel right now (it's from Pokemon adventure volume 24, I don't remember what page).
Oh, by the way, the last problem can have two values for x and three values for y, assuming a single digit answer (which you need) (there's your hint). I don't care which one you use, all work as valid answers.
As for when they teach you this stuff...? You should learn some of this in Algebra I, some in Algebra II, some in PreCalc, and some isn't taught in school but at least one of you knows how to do it anyway.
The lady looks up at you, surprised, and says, "Oh my, I'm not at all good at that. Ask Rebecca, she could have been a math professor if she hadn't settled down with me."
The woman walks into the seemingly-empty bakery and calls out, "Becca? Can you help someone with some math?"
A stern looking middle-aged woman with long blond hair emerges from the back room. She whipes her hands on a dish towel and then asks, "What do you need?"
"Um, I'm balletandbow, and this is hotairballoon. Do you know this?" you say, pulling the challenge paper out of your pocket. Strange. You can't remember how it got there, but there it is, next to the two old challenge papers, your phone, and a crisp five dollar bill. You hand the lady the sheet of math problems. She picks it up, squints at it, and looks at you.
"Is this your idea of a joke?" she asks.
"Don't be mean, Becca," the red-haired woman chides. "They're just kids. I'm sure they didn't mean anything wrong- here, let me see." She snatches the paper and looks at it. Her forehead wrinkles. She turns the paper over, stares at it, and then flips it again. "It's blank," she says.
"It is not blank!" you say. "Look, it says math... stuff... all over it."
"I'm sorry, dear. I can't see anything," says the red-haired woman.
"Neither can I," says Rebecca.
"Perhaps our eyesight is just going," the other woman teases.
(June 8, 2016 - 12:27 pm)
Back to being clueless again. I, too, have only recently started Algebra, and I know virtually nothing about trig.
...
I like trivia questions.
(June 8, 2016 - 1:42 pm)
AHAHAHAHA that was really funny, balletandbow.
And they teach you this stuff in 8th grade. o.o (or for me, at least)
(I'll figure out the problem soon, thank goodness hotel rooms have note pads)
(June 8, 2016 - 12:49 pm)
I'm so sorry I didn't notice this was going on because I almost never check PP and I was at Kennywood all yesterday and I slept at my friend's house the day before so I was there all day and today I had auditions for singing at Camp from 10:00 to 12:15, also I thought this was just a thread of fun little challegnes to do, so I didn't bother checking it gahhhh!
But I'll help you this time! Just... give me a few minutes.
(June 8, 2016 - 6:28 pm)
That's the thing. I'm in 7th, and am only about halfway through Algebra.
(June 8, 2016 - 8:00 pm)
Novelist, could HAB and I use the numbers you come up with? Please, PLEASE, neither of us can do this. At all. Period. PLEEEEASE!!!
(June 8, 2016 - 8:39 pm)
I should not have requested that.
I thought I was good at math, but I didn't realize how OLD you people are!!!!!!! I was good for my age!!!
(June 8, 2016 - 2:27 pm)
Ahh, shoot. I was relying on you, Mei. xD
I think I could do the beginning problems, but I'm, y'know, sixth-grade level just isn't going to cut it.
(June 8, 2016 - 9:13 pm)
I walk up to Connor, Delia, and Hester and ask them who built this town.
(June 8, 2016 - 4:41 pm)
Hahaha, oh man, it's really funny watching you guys freak out. This wasn't even the hardest math thing planned... I bet you are really good at it, and there will be some easier math puzzles. There are some older CBers like S.E. who should be able to help out with this one.
Delia looks at you curiously. "I'm not sure. My father knows quite a lot of local history, so I'm sure he'd be able to tell you founded the town."
"But who built it?" you ask.
"Oh, you mean who created everything? The scientist, of course, was the first."
(June 8, 2016 - 7:49 pm)
*Looks at problem*
Uhhh.
*blanks*
6th grade math didn't quite cover that unit....
I have to go on a long car ride now.
I'll ask around on how to do that...
OH MY LUNA! Bubles said hour!!! That's his 2nd word!
(June 8, 2016 - 6:32 pm)
I should not have requested that! Ah! I thought I was good at math, but that was only for my age! I didn't realize that you guy are, like, high schoolers!
Saying a hundred digits of pi will not help in this. :(
(June 8, 2016 - 7:34 pm)
Does each pairing work on this problem?
(June 8, 2016 - 8:31 pm)