Posted on 06/29/2013 6:30:34 PM PDT by Wellington VII
This week’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder overturned Section 4(b) of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which mandated federal oversight of changes in voting procedure in jurisdictions that have a history of using a “test or device” to impede enfranchisement. Here is one example of such a test, used in Louisiana in 1964.
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>> You’re assuming a fact not in evidence from the diagram.
Well, like I said... you can check it and come pretty damn close, and draw your conclusion from that.
And if I had to actually move forward on a project in the real world, based on what information is obviously there... I’d be cashing in while you’re still jacking off and bloviating to your sycophantic audience. ROFL!
First: it's not "sophisticated." It's high school math. Second, to within the given facts, I've given you the only answer there is sqrt(25-24cos(angle)). Properly identify the angle, and I'll tell you what the length is. Third, Edison was a worthless hack, who cheated Tesla and his other scientists out of money they earned. If Edison had had his way, the nighttime map of the US would be as dark as NoKorea. Fortunately, Tesla and Westinghouse prevailed.
N (2^(x-1) = Y
X = 10 Y = 40
N (1024) = 40
N = 40/1024
N = 0.039
0.039 2^X = 10
10/0.039 = 2^x = 256
x = log 256/ log 2
x = 8
Where N = total number of days and x = original height, and Y equals the current height.
Logarithms are your friend.
X = 40 * log (N-1)/ log 2
Since we know that 10 days got us to 40 in height we have:
X = 40 * log 10 / log 2
Day 8 it is 10.
10 = 40 *
Log(base2)40 =
Log 40/
Log 2
=
ln(40) =
N (2^(x)) = Y
Where N is the original height, X is the number of days and Y is the current height.
X = 10 Y = 40
N (1024) = 40
N = 40/1024
N = 0.039
0.039 2^X = 10
10/0.039 = 2^x = 256
x = log 256/ log 2
x = 8
There you go. That’s the general equation for this problem.
Some of the questions seem just a little bit too brilliantly, perversely ambiguous, even for Southern Democrats. I’m not sure I even accept at face value the authenticity of the document itself. (see #191)
Actually, you’d be bankrupt, because if the angle was anything other than 90 — and in the real world it usually is — you’d be using the wrong coefficient for the cosine which you (LOL) thought was 25 (ROFLMAO.)
>> Day 8 it is 10.
I did it a little differently.
Tree doubles every day, so it *halves* every “yesterday”. Today (day 10) it’s 40 feet.
So yesterday (day 9) it was half that — 20 feet.
Day before that (day 8) it was half THAT — 10 feet. Done.
Not that there’s anything wrong with logarithmic math.
Sometimes test taking requires quicker stragegies though.
Your solution is great! But what if they were a little sneakier and asked you how much time would elapse before the tree was 16 feet? ;)
I’d also be better off not converting it to decimals.
>> But what if they were a little sneakier and asked you how much time would elapse before the tree was 16 feet? ;)
I’d be screwed and break my pencil and you’d win. (Or get to vote. Whatever.)
Younger, nimbler mind and all. :-)
Hey, I haven’t used logarithms in awhile. :) It was good to know I still understand them well enough to answer these questions correctly.
>> which you (LOL) thought was 25 (ROFLMAO.)
Y’know Fred, I’ve looked back at all my posts and I can’t find a single place where I mentioned a cosine coefficient of 25. (LOL!)
Can you help me find WTF you’re talking about, Mr. Wizard?
"Really reading" some of the questions reveals ambiguities that are impossible to resolve logically, unless, as yarddog has pointed out in #183, you guess what they are asking. If you have to score 100% then I would think it is otherwise impossible on the basis of question 27 alone because, as far as I know, it is impossible for a curved line to be straight at a single spot. Perhaps some geometry expert can correct me on that particular question, though.
Dang it. I forgot that. Well done.
Yeah I brain farted.
so that’s where are you smarter than a 5th grader came from?
Claims to be the answer key.
http://mrvogtshomepage.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/2/8/14282917/louisiana_literacy_test_-_answers.pdf
Basic literacy should be a requirement. Obviously a high school diploma doesn't mean anything anymore.
Anyway, your probably right, it still won't stop dead people from voting.
Again, the example I posted from Alabama showed that whites were given two lines of third grade level writing to read, and blacks were given a long passage of complex legalese to read. If you can’t see what is wrong with that, one wonders how you passed any test of any kind, since you seem to have impaired reading comprehension.
Thank you, you’re a bigger man than Nose Twitch for admitting it.
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