how do cooks use math?
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I use it to:\n adjust recipes (to make 2 servings or 8 of a recipe that serves 6, for example)\n figure out what size pan to use for adjusted recipes\n calculate pan volume\n control portion size\n convert measurements and temperatures when going from metric/ celcius to American/ farenheit\n figure out how much of an ingredient to buy\n figure the total and per-serving cost of a recipe
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that math formula that proves it is SO WRONG! i just talked about this with someone, if you look at the formula it gets messed up like halfway through.\n\ndo we need to break this down?\none fish + one fish = 2 fish
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i assume you want a demonstration of the use of numbers and math in daily life... try these\n\n1. suppose brand a of candy sells for 2.37 for an 8 oz bag and brand b sells for 3.05 for a 11 oz bag ask audience which is a better deal ?, why ?, how can we compare the 2 brands to get a definite answer ? Now you introduce the idea of unit price which is $amount/weight do this for each brand. The smaller value for the two brands is the better unit price or the better deal.\n\nfind three different size circles. measure for each one the distance around the circle and the distance across the center of it write these values down for each circle.  Now for each pair of measurements divide the around value by the across value. ask the audience to compare the three quotients and note anything unusual.  what will happen is that no matter the size of the circle distance around/distance across is the same value about 3.14159. now state that pi is the ratio of dist. around / dist. across for a circle and is the same regardless of size of circle
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Maths followed by French
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they study animal using math alot. stuff  like graph and measureing.
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Math is used all the time in the engineering sciences.  Many physical phenomena, including fluid flow, heat transport, and diffusion can be described by appropriate partial differential equations.  In order to solve these equations and make predictions, you need to be good at calculus.\n\nIf you limit yourself to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you would be stuck with linear models for everything.  This means that any more complicated relationship between two variables could not be modeled continuously, and you would never be able to extrapolate with any confidence.  Thus development of new technology would be strictly trial and error (and you wouldn't even have a good trial and error system without statistics).\n\nHang in there!  Get through that math.  You don't have to like it, but you will inevitably appreciate the developments that math has enabled.
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cooking the books means taking the actual figures and putting false ones in their place ex; say you had to make an entry for a company in the amount of 1,000.00 but you only put in 800 that would be considered cooking the books...... you can do it to either make the company look like its not making alot of money and pocketing the rest or doing it for tax purposes to evade paying so much taxes on the money made.
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Math is needed for lots of things!\nDo your homework!\n\nhttp://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.why.math.html\nThere are actually thousands of different jobs that require some knowledge of mathematics. Here are more than 30 firsthand accounts from Mathematicians at Work telling what some college math majors are doing, from an Air Traffic Control Systems Analyst and a Lawyer to a Data Capture Facility Troubleshooter on the Hubble space telescope.\n\nExactly How Is Math Used In Technology?, from the Mathematics Department of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, provides examples of math uses for biomedical engineering, food technology, building technology, chemical sciences, civil and structural engineering, graphics and computer-aided drawing (CAD), electronics, environmental health, mechanical engineering, mining technology, nuclear medicine, occupational health, petroleum technology, prosthetics, forestry and wildlife, robotics, and surveying.
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At least two of them, or exactly 2 of them?\nOf couse, assuming they choose just one recipe for "supper"\n\nProb. that at least 2 of them choose the same recipe.\n\n1 chooses a recipe:\nprob 2 picks diff. recipe = 7/8\nprob 3 choose diff than 1 and 2 = 6/8\nprob 4 diff than all above = 5/8\nprob 5 diff than all above = 4/8\n\nprob they all choose diff = 7/8 x 6/8 x 5/8 x 4/8 = 0.205\nprob at least 2 choose same = 1 - .205 = 0.795 or about 80%\n\nprob exactly 2.\n\n1 chooses recipe\n2 chooses same = 1/8\n3 chooses diff = 7/8\n4 chooses another diff = 6/8\n5 chooses another diff = 5/8\n\nprob 1 and 2 choose same (rest diff) = 0.0513\nhowever 2 and 3 (or any pair) could choose same (rest diif)\nnumber of possible pairs from 5 is (5)(4)/2 = 10\nSo probability that exactly two are same = 10 x .0513 = 0.513 or about 51%. \n\nnote: prob exactly 2 (51%) is less than at least 2 (80%)
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Properties of mathematics makes it work. I'm not sure exactly what it has you do but essentially it does this.\n\nIf your number is X. You add 5 to it then subtract 5 from it and you get your original number. Of course the nice ones hide the fact that your doing exactly this. \n\nDavid Copperfield did a TV bit once where he had a 3X3 square. You start out at any square you want and move according to his directions. After each move he took away a square. In the end you always end up on one square. That was cool. Anyone heard of it?
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Using the Calculator!! So simple and easy!!\n\nBy the way, what's this voip. I have heard a sweet dish of the same name. Ha ha just joking!!!
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To be able to use a tool to accomplish a task, you need to know about the task.  Ignorance of the task is one fundamental problem that instructors trying to introduce the concept of functions have to face.\n\nA good way to do it is take up a task (say calculating interest), let them know the parameters involved (what we call variables in math).. and how the result is derived manually.  \n\nNow, if they are made to understand that excel/spreadsheet is a tool that would enable them to accomplish that same task .... may be they would be able to get along .....
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some calculators can do this\n\nmathematica software will do it
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i dunno if i use it correctly but sometimes when i have to do like, a math project i use it to say for example:\n10 to the 6th power but instead of writing it all out i write:\n10^6 \n\nget me?\nhmm. good luck on finding the answer!
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Actually I had something to help you but x=0 which makes it pretty difficult.\n\nI guess you could try to talk about tomatoes or something.  Say Tom (X) has 1/2 the amount of tomatoes that Jill has, plus four.  Or in other words, if you take Jill's amount of tomatoes, multiply it by two, and take Tom's amount and multiply it by three, there total amount of tomatoes will equal 12.  How many tomatoes does Jill have?  How many does Tom have?
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I've taught maths to a child!\n\nIts easy.....maths comes in everywhere. From measuring to money todistance to time! Its harder to make up a story without using maths!
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Mathematics are tools of the mind. Just like a carpenter uses different tools for sawing, hammering, sanding, etc., mathematians use different forms of mathematics to solve different kinds of problems.\n\nThe ratio is one of those tools, generally considered part of the algebra tool chest. And just as hand tools are made of other parts, i.e., wood for handles and metal for hammer heads and saw blades, the ratio is made up of other simpiler parts of algebra.\n\nA ratio is a number and it's often a fraction. On its own, it means nothing, but when compared to another number, it takes on a meaning relative to that number. You'll also hear ratios being used with number-to-number, such as 2-to-1.\n\nIt's really not as confusing as the previous paragraph sounds. In fact, ratios are so common, they are embedded within our spoken language. Here are some ratio-like words: twice, half and double.\n\nHere are some example sentences:\n\n"If you're not completely satisfied with our product, we'll double your money back." So how much would you get back if the product cost $10, and you didn't like it?... $20, because $20 is 2 x $10.\n\n"That tackle must of hurt. The linebacker was twice the size of the quarterback."\n\n"We've got company coming for dinner. I better double the recipe."\n\n"This stinks. This year's bonus was only half of what last year's bonus was."\n\nIn all of these cases, we're describing the "size" of something relative to something else.\n\nOne of the most famous ratios is the percentage. Go to the mall and you'll see percentage and ratios all over the place.\n\n"Take 50% off." Or you get it for half price.\n\n"That will be 6% sales tax." The more the product costs, the more tax you'll pay.\n\n"Our waitress gave us really good service. I'm going to tip her 20% rather than 15%."\n\nAnd the last example I'll give is gambling - especially horse racing. All of the odds for a horse are described in terms of ratios.\n\n"The winner was 'Newton's Apple' paying 2-to-1." So a $10 bet returned the winner's original $10 plus $20 more.\n\n"I'd like to place $10 on the 40-to-1 longshot, 'Plane Geometry' to win."\n\nSo in all these cases, the ratio - 15%, 20%, 2-to-1, means nothing on its own. But when compared to something else, we have a useful tool to compare relative sizes.