"Average Speed" math question.

[AstroManLuca]

It would be much easier to illustrate unit canceling if there was an easy way of writing fractions on a message board.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Either you have really amazing mental math skills

Given my history, that seems to be the case.
I do not have any amazing technical math skills, but I do seem to have a gift for proportions that matches me very well with component-level troubleshooting.

 

[CLite]

Given my history, that seems to be the case.
I do not have any amazing technical math skills, but I do seem to have a gift for proportions that matches me very well with component-level troubleshooting.

There are no proportions to eyeball, you just got lucky.

If the original question had something like 900 miles @ 3.6mph you would have applied your original logic about the curve being obvious but you would have been wrong. You haven't provided any equations that makes me think you would have come to a different conclusion between 900 miles and 1000 miles.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Not sure on this one...

 

[Farmer]

It would be much easier to illustrate unit canceling if there was an easy way of writing fractions on a message board.

http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php

You can cancel to your heart's content, motherfucker.

 

[Minjin]

It would be much easier to illustrate unit canceling if there was an easy way of writing fractions on a message board.

Now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised the vbulletin wizards here haven't implemented an equation writer. I've seen it built into other forums.

 

[DominionSeraph]

If the original question had something like 900 miles @ 3.6mph you would have applied your original logic about the curve being obvious but you would have been wrong. You haven't provided any equations that makes me think you would have come to a different conclusion between 900 miles and 1000 miles.

900 I wouldn't have been able to say. Things are still going in the right direction, but I work best in 10's, 5's, and 2's. (Eight is ok because I can split it into 80% of 10/20% from 10 and work from both sides.)

As for what makes you think what, I don't care. There's amusement to be had watching people stumble around in the darkness. It tends to be easier to correct someone if you first let them get really wrong, anyway.

 

[DirkGently1]

42.

Definately.

 

[Paul98]

900 I wouldn't have been able to say. Things are still going in the right direction, but I work best in 10's, 5's, and 2's. (Eight is ok because I can split it into 80% of 10/20% from 10 and work from both sides.)

As for what makes you think what, I don't care. There's amusement to be had watching people stumble around in the darkness. It tends to be easier to correct someone if you first let them get really wrong, anyway.

For this problem 900 is the easiest to know the answer right away just by looking at it. As it is blatantly obvious.