Dr Sparky’s
Advanced MATH THEORY
I. Sparky’s Law
If Dr. Sparky advocates it, it becomes more than a theory. Her word is law.
II. Mathematical Certainty Law
Any answer that Dr sparky comes up with has a reason, and even if it doesn’t, it is still valid. (See #1)
III. Law of Application
If YOU CAN’T FIGURE A PROBLEM OUT, IT PROBABLY ISN’T WORTH KNOWING. (UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU ARE MERELY A stupid IGNORAMUS AND DON’T USE THE DR SPARKY APPROACH TO SOLVING PROBLEMS IN WHICH CASE RE-READ THEORIES laws #1 AND #2 AND REPEAT THEM TO YOURSELF OVER AND OVER UNTIL THEY ARE FINALLY IMBEDDED IN YOUR THICK SKULL.)
IV. Law of Distribution
The Sparky’s Law also applies to Prof. Sprite. Her word is also law.
Exercises
1) Lil’ Sprite goes to a plant store and buys 127 yards of colored saran wrap. She brings it home and makes incisions every 12 inches. She then proceeds to cut straight across. She puts all the pieces in a box to send to her best friend Sparky in Sweden so she can start working on a project. (Let’s just say a chicken wire hat for simplicity’s sake.) How many pieces does Lil’ Sprite put into the box?
Solution:
Since we know that there are 127 yards, we must therefore take the square root of this number, since she went to a plant shop to purchase it.
|127| This gives us 11.26942767. We now proceed to round this number. Keep in mind the significant figures (which are radical 1, 33, 5, 7, radical 9, 27, 57, 127, 257, 727, and |7|. All other numbers are irrelevant.)
We now have:
1. 2 33 2 7 . 7
And since Lil’ Sprite cut every 12 inches, we must move the decimal over that much. However, this presents a problem. Sparky is in Sweden where they use the metric system. Therefore we must switch to centimeters. Measure out 12 cm and move the decimal. This gives us:
1233277 Add a comma in where you feel like it. Take the square root of that which gives us 113.7 but since we are quite superstitious, we don’t like the number 13. So we’ll round it again. This gives us 127.7. We know that since Lil’ Sprite puts the pieces into a box, we square this number since the shape of a box is generally square. We now have 16307.29. Remember significant figures: this gives us a final answer of 17277.27.
*To prove – See #2.