Math gurus...help with my daughter's homework

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

SearchMaster

Diamond Member
Jun 6, 2002
7,791
114
106
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I remember complaining back in the day that my parents couldn't help me with math, but now I understand...

Thanks for the ".5bh" walk through memory lane!

Yeah, no kidding. I'm 40 and had forgotten that simple formula - strangely I've never been asked to find the area of a triangle in the past 20+ years.
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
41,920
2,161
126
Originally posted by: SearchMaster
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I remember complaining back in the day that my parents couldn't help me with math, but now I understand...

Thanks for the ".5bh" walk through memory lane!

Yeah, no kidding. I'm 40 and had forgotten that simple formula - strangely I've never been asked to find the area of a triangle in the past 20+ years.

Same here :) And I'm in a technology field where logarithms and statistics are used every day.

LOL at the people that said "this is easy!" It's easy if you're in school and still having the stuff drilled in your head heh.
 

skace

Lifer
Jan 23, 2001
14,488
7
81
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
this is easy. Scaling the dimensions of any 2d object by 2 will up the area by 2^2, so 4. 12*4 = 48 cm2.

Similarly, doubling the sides of a 3d object like a pyramid or box will up the volume by 2^3

Show your work!~!#