Manhattan Probability

Renne has a bag of candy. The bag has 1 candy bar, 2 lollipops, 3 jellybeans and 4 truffles. Jack takes one piece of candy out of the bag at random. If he picks a jellybean, he chooses one additional piece of candy and then stops. If he picks any non-jellybean candy, he stops picking immidietely. Af...

Non-algebric method needed

A survey of employers found that during 1993 employment costs rose 3.5 percent, where employment costs consist of salary costs and fringe-benefits costs. If salary costs rose 3 percent and fringe-benefit costs rose 5.5 percent during 1993, then fringe-benefit costs represented what percent of employ...

If q is Brandon's average monthly usage, then his yearly usage is 12q. Let Jodie's average monthly usage be j, then her yearly usage is 12j. We need to prove 12j is equal to or greater than 12q. #1. Jodie's average monthly usage for 8 months was 1.5q. So total for 8 months was 12q. If her usage was ...

Hey,
'However much' is an idiom, meaning 'as much as'. So it does not involve any counting of parents here.

'Despite the fact that parents in johannson's district may agree that'- here fact and may do not go together, so it is incorrect.

Hope this helps.

E is the clear winner, because the judge may have favored women in 60% of the cases, but E clearly points out that the women should have won in more than 60% cases.

Hi Mitch, will it also be okay if do the following:
multiply 333*8=2664
and then add 33+3= 36 to it= 2700.

Somehow seems simpler and more obvious then subtracting 300 and 330.

Thanks Brian, I have been reviewing my errors and most of them are careless mistakes. I'm going to start working on the checklist suggested by you right away! Thanks, guys! And since you like that idea I'll tell you exactly what I did - I had a five-point checklist of the easy-to-make mistakes that ...