Excuse me? Is this the kind of help you get at this site? We have finals next week up here at UNI (Northern Iowa). If I do not know how to do these soon then I will be in trouble. The only reason that I posted to Math Goodies is because I was a member there first and they are generally not too speedy in solving problems. I saw this site today and joined it thinking I would see how this works out. I'm not liking what I've been seeing so far? Thanks for being an jerk though.
Excuse me?
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Look, from experience, if you don't understand those questions that you posted, you will certainly have trouble with the exam. We can't teach lessons here. That's why I wanted to know exactly where your trouble is, but you never told me. Just doing the work for you, without some feedback from you, would be pointless for all of us.
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That's odd. Several tutors service both sites and each has a small set of mostly-exclusive contributors. I can imagine only one reason why one forum would be slower than the other - the contributor. If you learn to provide better information, and learn to be polite, I think you will find sufficiently-speedy and more-than-simply-adequate repsonses on either.rkivell said:
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One more shot, I think...
We are able to discern exactly only what you give us exactly. If you do not provide sufficient information, we must choose to guess or to ignore you. If we guess, or if we ignore you, it is your fault, not ours. "Polite", in this case, means to provide sufficient information so that we don't have to guess and so that we feel no compulsion to ignore you. If we happen to guess badly, and you decide to have your feelings hurt, that's still your fault for not providing sufficient information. If we guess badly (which may or may not be the case on this one), and you choose to have your feelings hurt (which is the case on this one), and you start in with general flaming and name-calling, well...that's your fault, too.
We're human, we're volunteers, we often are forced to rely on our own judgment (sometimes professional judgment), and we like to try to encourage folks to learn the appropriate rules of interaction that are already established, rather than try to move the whole of society over to an individual's way of thinking.
If there is a difficult adjustment, at some point, someone will go to the trouble to take some action, much like I am doing by writing this.
Point: If you would like to do some math, you have come to the right place. Once you get the general idea of how to interact (most importantly by providing sufficient information) I think we can all get along just fine.
My views. I welcome others'.
We are able to discern exactly only what you give us exactly. If you do not provide sufficient information, we must choose to guess or to ignore you. If we guess, or if we ignore you, it is your fault, not ours. "Polite", in this case, means to provide sufficient information so that we don't have to guess and so that we feel no compulsion to ignore you. If we happen to guess badly, and you decide to have your feelings hurt, that's still your fault for not providing sufficient information. If we guess badly (which may or may not be the case on this one), and you choose to have your feelings hurt (which is the case on this one), and you start in with general flaming and name-calling, well...that's your fault, too.
We're human, we're volunteers, we often are forced to rely on our own judgment (sometimes professional judgment), and we like to try to encourage folks to learn the appropriate rules of interaction that are already established, rather than try to move the whole of society over to an individual's way of thinking.
If there is a difficult adjustment, at some point, someone will go to the trouble to take some action, much like I am doing by writing this.
Point: If you would like to do some math, you have come to the right place. Once you get the general idea of how to interact (most importantly by providing sufficient information) I think we can all get along just fine.
My views. I welcome others'.
Wow, it is very nice to see that everyone is being nice to each other again ! That makes me happy. Everyone forgiving and forgetting. Makes me just wanna blurt out . . . "Merry Christmas!" but for religious and cultural purposes. . . "Happy Holdays, everyone!"
! That makes me happy. Everyone forgiving and forgetting. Makes me just wanna blurt out . . . "Merry Christmas!" but for religious and cultural purposes. . . "Happy Holdays, everyone!"rkivell said:
If I remember correctly, we considered problems like these ain year twelve at school. .. so it's not too hard, if you have to learn this at the Uni. Why don't u just read a book an probabilities? or just search for "statistics.pdf". I reckon u find at least ten!