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Infinite Geometric Series

We continued on today into the next lesson on geometric series; infinite series.

Max started of by giving on a few notes and we got yet another handy little equation.

After the notes we went through some examples.We were assigned exercise #47, questions 1-9.

Towards the end of class we went through the "Blog Cleanup". (Mainly Labels)

Well after a few people(who will not be named...) came to class late, Mr. Max got right to teaching us Geometric series. The newest update to our greek alphabet fluency was the "sigma":

Then, after a definition, we went on to some examples:

And then Finite Geometric Series:

These examples, however, were skewed by some off topic discussions about ethics and vocabulary. We decided we should all be a little more like Marc and Craig Kielburger, the brothers from Thornhill, Ont., who formed Free the Children, an organization that builds schools in developing countries. We also talked about words that mean something that is not quite a theorem(not sure if that makes much sense) like conjecture, hypothesis, philosophy, educated guess, etc.

And finally, the homework....yaaaay. Ex. 46, 1-11

Oh! One more yay!(this one not so sarcastic) There is only one more day of new stuff to learn! Then its review until the exam.

Amy

Exam Countdown: 12 Days

Marc and Craig Kielburger

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May 26th

Hello,

Today Mr Max started off the class my explaining that there is no accelerated math deadline for this weeks Friday. There will be a deadline for all accelerated math to be done though so keep working hard on it..

After hearing that good news, Mr Max continued into a new unit of Geometric Sequences. First of all he described to us what a geometric sequence was. He did this by explaining what they were recursively and explicitly.. see the below slide for more info

If this doesn't make sense to you.. it is just that a geometric sequence is a line of numbers that are generated by multiplying the previous number by a common ratio. For example, take a gander at the slide below and it should help you out.

By this time in my post I am starting to become extremely irritable because stupid blogger doesn't put my pictures where I want them.. or in the right order.

Anyways, the next three slides are perfect examples of what the formulas are, what each variable means, how formulas are used to find each term in a geometric sequence, or how to find the rate at which you are multiplying them.

Below are three more slides of how to use the formulas that are given, in the proper way. Mr Max showed us how to take the question given and use all parts of it to set up ratios that helped solve the problem. As you can see.. you may need a calculator to do some of the arithmetic so beware.

So.. the assignment today is Exercise 45 #1-7.

Remember there is a homework check in the near future so be sure to have all of the cumulative exercises done!

Keep working hard on accelerated math.

Thanks,

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Cramer

Yet Another Eventless Scribe Day...

Once again, I am forced to scribe on another eventless day as Mr. Maksymchuk has to supervise the students taking the Applied Math Pilot-Exam. As such, today's period is a free one; however, Maksymchuk strongly encourages you employ this period to learn about geometric sequences from the Math 40SP website and/or work on subject material you have a poor grasp of.

It would probably also be prudent to practice for the Final Exam.

Oh yes, and one last thing: badgers!

-I.B.

Concluding Probability

The first example we saw was a continuation from yesterday. Here are two more solutions, one using a combination and one using a permutation.

Here's another example showing how to use permutations to find probability. The reason it is a permutation is because the order matters in this case.
This example is a similar question, but order doesn't matter, so we used a combination.
We also received the key for the pretest, so don't forget to prepare for the test tomorrow. Remember that we will be using calculators.

Tuesday, May 20

So we meet again... First off I hope everyone had an enjoyable long weekend and I also hope the Rugby girls that missed today are having fun kicking butt.

So we began todays class by making a schedule for the rest of the classes leading up to the exam. Not a whole lot of learnin left until we begin review.. Time flies! Anyway the calender below shows what we have left and that we will still be having a test three days before the exam and hopefully 5 days of review can be squeezed in.

Remember... Do not bug Mr. Max for your results until at least the week after.. Then bug him all you possibly can.
The last of the probability examples were shown today as Max showed us some conditional probability problems.

Here are the final cumalitive exercises on probability assigned. And he has yet to do a homework check on exercises 39-41. So make sure you're up to date on all your assignments and be sure to look at your pre-test as we have a test coming up!! If your not quite sick of math yet then there are also the old exams which I strongly encourage everyone to take a peek at.

Farewell! Until next time...

Complementry events

Sorry about having this post up a bit late but when i came down in fifth block the resource centre was closed. Mostly all we did on Friday was get some more examples on the board for probability and scramble to get as many accelerated math objectives done as possible.

Thursday, May 15

Hey! Yesterday was *Darlene day* and i was hoping to scribe for you all. I didn't have a chance but I noticed no one else had so I'll post it up now... Better late than never eh?



Well anyway yesterday we continued probability and learned about dependent and independent events. Indepent means if two or more events occur, the first one has no effect on the second event.
A dependent event means the outcome of the first event will effect the outcome of the second event.


Two events are known to be mutually exclusive if there outcomes have no common elements.
Two mutually inclusive events can happen at the same time.


Remember to do your homework on exercises 40 and 41. Chances are there'll be a homework check in the near future. Also accelerated math is due Friday so try and master 49 objectives.

Sincerely yours...
Gregoire

Probability

Hey todays my day to scribe!....He began by telling us the two types of events that can occur in probability.

Then he showed us an example using a fair die:

Then he went on to show us the Addition Law and Multiplication Law with some examples:

Then he drew us a nice picture of a sample space that cooresponds with the example above to show how he got the answer (20/36).

and finally the homework that is due sometime soon:

max also enlightened us about the "Barber's Paradox"...how the barber cuts everyones hair in town but not his own..... cindy.






ANNA