"Social Distancing" at the Lake

Susie Cougar · 03-13-2020, 12:16 PM

Riverside Elementary School is holding an election to determine the new school color. 5/8 of the votes are for blue, 5/9 of the remaining votes are for green, and the remaining 48 votes are red. How many votes were for blue?

Do you like this question better? My daughter sent it to me a couple of weeks ago. She couldn’t figure it out. It’s fifth grade math.

Top-Water · 03-13-2020, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Susie Cougar

Riverside Elementary School is holding an election to determine the new school color. 5/8 of the votes are for blue, 5/9 of the remaining votes are for green, and the remaining 48 votes are red. How many votes were for blue?

Do you like this question better? My daughter sent it to me a couple of weeks ago. She couldn’t figure it out. It’s fifth grade math.

I'm sorry to interrupt .... one little short moment........... but the best one on the forum was the one about Sea-Level - Water Level and what you can or could see from Alton To Center Harbor.

Now back to Susie's question.

gillygirl · 03-13-2020, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Susie Cougar

Riverside Elementary School is holding an election to determine the new school color. 5/8 of the votes are for blue, 5/9 of the remaining votes are for green, and the remaining 48 votes are red. How many votes were for blue?

Do you like this question better? My daughter sent it to me a couple of weeks ago. She couldn’t figure it out. It’s fifth grade math.

180

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Susie Cougar · 03-13-2020, 01:57 PM

Good job, gillygirl!

gillygirl · 03-13-2020, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Susie Cougar

Good job, gillygirl!

Crap, I've had enough math through my years that if I didn't get it, I'd get checked for early onset dementia.

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DickR · 03-13-2020, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by gillygirl

Riverside Elementary School is holding an election to determine the new school color. 5/8 of the votes are for blue, 5/9 of the remaining votes are for green, and the remaining 48 votes are red. How many votes were for blue?

180

Yes, you are correct, but any good teacher will subtract a few points for not showing the work. So, for the rest out there:

5/8 went for blue, leaving 3/8 for something else. 5/9 of that 3/8 went for green, leaving (4/9) x (3/8) = 0.1666666... (or 1/6) for the remainder,who went red. That 48 is 1/6 of 288, and the original 5/8 of 288 went blue, or 180.

FlyingScot · 03-13-2020, 05:16 PM

Nice work, Susie and Top Water! A couple of beers, or 4, or 8 or 16 or...are available for collection on my porch in June.

So like the folding paper--if the virus doubles 2 or 4 or 10 times, the whole thing will be seen as overblown--as Major and others have opined. But if it keeps doubling, we're really screwed, and we will have wished we did even more to slow the spread.

Susie Cougar · 03-13-2020, 05:34 PM

This is a whole lot more fun than talking about the coronavirus.

Mr. V · 03-13-2020, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Susie Cougar

This is a whole lot more fun than talking about the coronavirus.

Then start a thread about it.

Hijacking this thread is poor form.

ApS · 03-13-2020, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Susie Cougar

This is a whole lot more fun than talking about the coronavirus.

Exponential growth is talking about the coronavirus!

03-13-2020, 12:16 PM	#1
Susie Cougar Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Parrish, Florida Posts: 626 Thanks: 297 Thanked 225 Times in 160 Posts	Riverside Elementary School is holding an election to determine the new school color. 5/8 of the votes are for blue, 5/9 of the remaining votes are for green, and the remaining 48 votes are red. How many votes were for blue? Do you like this question better? My daughter sent it to me a couple of weeks ago. She couldn’t figure it out. It’s fifth grade math.

03-13-2020, 01:57 PM	#4
Susie Cougar Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Parrish, Florida Posts: 626 Thanks: 297 Thanked 225 Times in 160 Posts	Good job, gillygirl!

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03-13-2020, 05:16 PM	#7
FlyingScot Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Tuftonboro and Sudbury, MA Posts: 2,467 Thanks: 1,358 Thanked 1,047 Times in 651 Posts	Nice work, Susie and Top Water! A couple of beers, or 4, or 8 or 16 or...are available for collection on my porch in June. So like the folding paper--if the virus doubles 2 or 4 or 10 times, the whole thing will be seen as overblown--as Major and others have opined. But if it keeps doubling, we're really screwed, and we will have wished we did even more to slow the spread.

03-13-2020, 05:34 PM	#8
Susie Cougar Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Parrish, Florida Posts: 626 Thanks: 297 Thanked 225 Times in 160 Posts	This is a whole lot more fun than talking about the coronavirus.