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April, 2006 - Page 2
by Carl Hiaasen
Dusty Muleman owns a casino boat. Dusty isn't any casino boat owner; he is breaking the law! He dumps all the toilet waste from his ship into the bay! From there, the current pushes it toward the beach where it contaminates the water where people swim. The police don't know who is doing the dumping, but Noah's dad does!
Noah's dad wants to stop Dusty right away and so he does the first thing that comes to mind - He sinks Dusty's boat! Noah's dad is arrested and put in jail! Soon after, Dusty has the casino boat afloat and is back in business. Noah and his sister decide that they must stop Dusty for their dad. They need the help of a man named Mr. Peeking, who used to work on the casino boat, to prove that Dusty is dumping the waste.
Suddently, Mr. Peeking disappears. His car is found with what seems to be blood on the dashboard! Could Dusty have sent someone to kill Mr. Peeking before he could give any information? Mr. Peeking's girlfriend, Shelly, promises to help the kids in his place. Then Noah comes up with a plan! It's risky, but it's worth the shot. He thinks it will stop Dusty once and for all. What is their daring plan? Will it succeed? Find out in Flush.
Check out Carl Hiaasen's other book, Hoot, and watch for the movie to be released on May 5, 2006.
The flowers bloom,
The breeze blows soft and gentle,
The green grass ripples,
The flowers bend,
While inside a yellow bee hums.
The suns ray's shine bright
After dinner
Laughing children spill from homes.
As cool darkness settles,
An orchestra of birds and peepers
Sing the world good night.
Olivia jogs 3 miles on the first day of the week. Each day she jogs one mile farther. Her brother, Joseph skates twice as far as she jogs each day. At the end of 7 days, how many more miles has Joseph skated than Olivia has jogged?
There are a total of 31 light bulbs left on. Since each numbered person was touching the lightbulb of their number and all the multiples of their number, it was just a matter of looking at the multiplication tables and considering each number's factors. When you multiply, you are multiplying two numbers together to make a product. Even when a product has several different factors, they usually come in pairs. For example - Take the number 24. It can be made by multiplying 2 times 12, 3 times 8, 4 times 6 and of course, 1 times 24. That's four pairs of numbers - 8 numbers all together. So, light bulb number 24 would be touched by person number 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 24. After that, no one else would touch it. Person number 1 would turn the light on, number 2 off, person #3 on, #4 off, #6 on, #8 off, #12 on and #24 off. Since there are an even number of people touching the light, the last person would turn the light off. Almost all the numbers are this way; they have an even number of factors. There is only one kind of number that has an odd number of different factors, and that is a square number. For example, the number 36 is a square number. It's factors are: 1 times 36, 2 times 18, 3 times 12, 4 times 9 and 6 times 6. When you list out which people would touch lightbulb number 36 you get: person # 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (only once! person number 6 does not touch the light bulb twice!), 9, 12, 18 and 36. That's nine people that touch the light - an odd number! and therefore the last person who touches the lightbulb will be turning it on!
So, the light bulbs that are left on are all the numbers from 1 to 1000 that are perfect squares. They are light bulb numbers: 1(1x1), 4 (2x2), 9 (3x3), 16 (4x4), 25 (5x5), 36 (6x6), 49 (7x7), 64 (8x8), 81 (9x9), 100 (10x10),
121 (11x11), 144 (12 x 12), 169 (13x13), 196 (14x14), 225 (15x15), 256 (16x16), 289 (17x17), 324 (18x18), 361 (19x19), 400 (20x20), 441 (21x21), 484 (22x22), 529 (23x23), 576 (24x24), 625 (25x25), 676 (26x26), 729 (27x27), 784 (28x28), 841 (29x29), 900 (30x30) and 961(31x31).