Let's make a homework help thread!

Perzactly. That's why I said it's not really rules-lawyering (which makes me think you're twisting the sense because of the wording); it's pure reading for comprehension: "exactly what is this sentence as it is written asking me?" The question "If I flip these two coins, what are the odds I will get a head and a tail?"  ^*

is a different question than "If I flip these two coins, what are the odds that the dime will be heads and the nickel tails?"  ^*

^25%

. You aren't twisting the question to suit your answer; you're having to choose your answer to exactly suit the question.

Oh and by the way,

is the right answer but a wrong general reason. 7 is the only total that reason works for.

For rolling a seven on two dice, the odds are in fact 1 in 6. That's because no matter what one die rolls, the other die has one number that can total to 7. The question really is "What are the odds that the second die will roll the number needed to total to 7 when added to the first one?"

But for any total other than seven, the question isn't "what number on the second die can be added to the number of the first one?" because there are numbers on the first die that make it impossible to get the desired total, no matter what the second one rolls. You can't get 2 any way but 1-1; that's a 1 in 36 chance (1 in 6 that one die will be 1, 1 in 6 chance that the second one will also be 1). Same for 12; if you don't get a 6 on one die, you can't get it no matter what the other one comes up— 1 in 36 chance. 3 and 5 both have a 4 in 36 chance, and so on up. You can't generalize from one problem to another without being certain that they are really are asking equivalent questions.

edited 18th Feb '10 8:05:30 AM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

I know that's the reason, I just didn't want to type up the reason that the other combinations have numbers that block the success chance. Laziness and poor wordy skills.

edited 18th Feb '10 8:44:05 AM by Deboss

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So I'm gonna need a whoollleee lotta help with College Algebra this semester and English Composition II cause I'm a space case and can't organise to save my life.

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I can help with algebra.

SHIKI is dead.

I could probably kick in some English help.

the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, the game itself will hold you back

The problem with the composition one is that it'd be kind of hard to help with short of you posting actual compositions and us critiquing it.

edited 18th Feb '10 11:04:50 AM by Taelor

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well I could do that I guess *Shrug* I just need help keeping it...organized and easy to follow. I apparently don't think the same way as people cause what I think is a logical step seems like a total random leap to them.

Real Life rwby rose

^Usually that means that you are making a connection in your head that isn't translating to the page. Often requires an explanation that you may think is superfluous because you assume the audience knows more about the subject than they do.

Like William, I wouldn't mind helping you with algebra.

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.

I can do the algebra bit too. If necessary, but you'd probably be better off with WWW. Now if you need help with material science or something come get me.

Fight smart, not fair.

I can help with electricity in Physics and probably Biology if anyone needs help.

My FF.net account

Are we advertising our skills now?

I can help with incompressible flow mechanics, basic thermodynamics, as well as some compressible stuff (taking that course now). I can also help with astrodynamics, but I'd doubt anyone else here would need to take that course.

edited 20th Feb '10 8:51:06 PM by zzzdragon

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I can help on most stuff.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

Tropers, I need help developing better study habits.

What advice can you give me other than The Obvious? (This seems to be my biggest problem right now)

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Designate blocks of time to accomplish a task. I work in 15 minute chunks for small tasks and then go up in time increments from there. Things don't take that much time when you focus exclusively on them, multitasking will kill you. Reward yourself in small chunks too. If you work on something for an hour allow your self 10 minutes to piss around. But only ten minutes. Then go back to work.

For my Digital Media class, I need to do a usability evaluation and redesign for a website. Any ideas for which one to pick?

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Do you want a good one or a bad one? sales, discussion, blog, webcomic? Television Without Pity is pretty bad. So is Bravo TV's home page. Glarkware is very good.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Thanks, Black cat. I'll try and get used to making use of my time.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Rather than focusing on rote memorization, just think. When you're walking home from class (or whenever you have some time that you're not doing anything) think about whatever it is you're supposed to be studying. Ponder possibilities, work your way through implications, think up questions that you'd like answered and generally try to relate stuff to your own life. But most importantly, let this all happen naturally; never try to force it. Understanding is a dynamic process that works at its own pace, and if you try to make it obey any schedule other than its own, you'll end up with nothing more than an illusion of understanding, a ghost of knowledge.

Well, that's what I do, at least. I don't know whether it'll work for anyone else.

edited 23rd Feb '10 11:44:06 AM by Taelor

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Uh... does anyone know how I do math faster and maybe get over my hate for it?

Hello again tropers

I always turned my math homework into a murder mystery in my brain and I had to find the killer. It got me through.

Sounds weird... I like it.

Hello again tropers

@Mad: It's supposed to be one with design flaws. TWOP might work, though I'm hoping to find one I'm a bit more familiar with, since use cases and personae are involved.

I suppose my textbook writer would have some nitpicks with the wiki layout, if I could manage to be objective.

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

I need help trying to figure out how to use root locus plots. Does anybody know how to work them?

Fight smart, not fair.

@Galeros, what are you having trouble with in Spanish? If it's vocabulary there's really nothing for it but rote memorization; fortunately a lot of words are similar to English (particularly hoity-toity English). Grammar, certainly syntax, is a system, though.