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| Thursday, September 7 | N/A | Get a 3-ring loose leaf binder for your notebook. Get a protractor and centimeter ruler. |
| Course Guidelines | Read it carefully. Sign the bottom portion and ask your parent to sign it too. Then detach the top portion and paste it in the front of your notebook. Return the signed portion to class. |
| Thursday, September 7 | N/A | Get a 3-ring loose leaf binder for your notebook. Get a protractor and centimeter ruler. |
| Course Guidelines | Read it carefully. Sign the bottom portion and ask your parent to sign it too. Then detach the top portion and paste it in the front of your notebook. Return the signed portion to class. | |
| Friday, September 8 | N/A | For those who were not in class on Thursday, see the listing for Thursday's assignment. | See WebAssign Assignment | Answer questions 1-10. Some possibly helpful resources:
When converting units that have an exponent (square feet (ft^2) or cubic meters (m^3)), you must separate the units into their component parts. So 300 ft^2 becomes 300 ft x 1 ft. You must then create two conversion fractions to change each of those units to the desired unit. Example: Let's change 300 ft^2 to square meters (m^2). Step 1: Identify the relationship between feet and meters -- 1 m = 3.281 ft; Step 2: Separate the given units into their component parts. Rewrite 300 ft^2 as 300 ft x 1 ft; Step 3: Create two conversion fractions that will convert each foot to meters. Because feet are in the numerator of the given value, feet will go in the denominator of our conversion fractions, in order to cancel the given units. Meters will go in the numerator of the conversion fraction. The conversion fraction thus looks like this: 1 m / 3.281 ft. Step 4: Now multiply the given value (as rewritten into two components) by the two conversion fractions: 300 ft x 1 ft x (1 m / 3.281 ft) x (1 m / 3.281 ft) = ___________m^2. Step 5: Now solve. By taking this step-by-step, you will never make the mistake of dividing when you should be multiplying, and vice versa. The solution: 330 ft^2 = 300 divided by 3.281, which answer is then divided again by 3.281, which gives us 27.9 m^2. |
| Thursday, September 7 | N/A | Get a 3-ring loose leaf binder for your notebook. Get a protractor and centimeter ruler. |
| Course Guidelines | Read it carefully. Sign the bottom portion and ask your parent to sign it too. Then detach the top portion and paste it in the front of your notebook. Return the signed portion to class. |