Come and enjoy the Exhibits at the 25th (Silver Anniversary) AMATYC =
Conference
November 18-21, 1999 in Pittsburgh, PA
Contact:
Michael Schachter =20
AMATYC Exhibits Chairperson =20
Coastal Carolina Community College =20
444 Western Blvd =20
Jacksonville, NC 28546-6899
Work: (910) 938-6168. Fax: (910) 455-7027
Email: michaels@always-online.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Mahler [SMTP:mahlerp@middlesex.cc.ma.us]
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 12:16 PM
To: mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
Subject: [MATHEDCC] Marilyn Does it Again
In this week's Marilyn Vos Savant is a good flurry of letters on this
problem.
Say that cucumbers are on sale, so you buy 100 pounds of them at your
local market. The cucumbers are 99% water. Some days later, they dry out
to 98% water. How much do they weigh now?
Sounds like a great problem for discussion groups in a math fundamentals
class. And a place where a little algebra might go a long weigh.
Phil Mahler
Middlesex CC
Bedford, MA
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