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good luck. i get the feeling you need to work on your portfolio while the economy is fucked if your dreams of journalism are to be realised when things pick up again.

lol maths.

i had no idea you could do addies and takies.

aw its adorable how britishes say "maths"

so is "sports" you yanquis are so cute!

it is heartening, the number of people who cannot grasp GCSE-level algebra and will pay you good money to explain it to them

altho how many times can i say "do the same to both sides of the equation" before i turn blue, honestly

"it's letters!! in maths!! cannot compute!!!"

yah u think yr too good fer numbers is that it

i have been doing undergrad interviews this week. the kids i've been speaking to are two years older than yours, I guess. they were 'tards, and they are definitely getting worse. easy way to make oxbridge academic laugh very loud: say "let's take GCSE scores into account".

i have been doing some awesome discrimination against public school students tho.

jhoshea can u please solve the following thru factorisation

2x^2 + 2x - 12 = 0

jh0, please can you

- differentiate x^(-cos(x))
- integrate 1/(x^2 + x - 6)
- plot sin(x)/x
- tell me how long a day is on the moon

^^^ real interview questions

lol caek, maybe they are just nervous ; )

the GCSE maths syllabus is noticeably easier than when i did it, btw. and props to fighting back against oxford's particularly public-school-haven rep ;)

i half-tried to get a really good M4nchester Gra4mar School kid bumped off our list because, well MGS is for cunts, isn't it?

a day on the moon lasts one moon day--duh

good work, come to oxford in october.

cool, what should i wear? for like clothes and stuff

a monocle

does not moon day last forever if "day" is "length of own-axis revolution within orbit"

oh riiiiiiiiiiight---we only see one side of the moon basically ever, right? the other side is where madness lurks?

lol I have a couple of MGS friends :-/ but your motives are pure

the other side is where syd barrett is buried

someone post a photo of LJ to help Mr. Que out.

day = "time from sunrise to sunrise" or "time to rotate on its own axis" (give same answer)

oh riiiiiiiiiiight---we only see one side of the moon basically ever, right? the other side is where madness lurks?

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this is the crucial fact you need to answer the question

(sub-question is: why do we always see the same side of the moon?)

dudes i cant do maths - gimme a break

because the moon was created by a super-asteroid impact on earth, hence the clustering debris had no rotational inertia

because the moon is mocking us always mocking us?

sweeet moves, moon

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Lunar_libration_with_phase2.gif

q: does the moon orbit in the same direction as earth's rotation? also, is the orbit normal to the earth's axis, or is it in the same plane as the earth's orbit?

jhoshea - the answer is x = 2 or -3

see me after class

ow the moon is freaking me out w/its weirdo wobbling

MATH ADMINISTRATOR this shit is totally unfair

look at it: 2x^2 + 2x - 12 = 0

forget the = 0 for now

=0

ok so u know it's a quadratic being factorised, hence u shd already have the following in mind

(2x...) (x...)

a bit of trial and error shows us that

(2x-4) (x+3)

multiplies out to give the initial equation

when (2x-4) (x+3) = 0, one of 2x-4 and x+3 must = 0 too. hence x is 2 or -3

thank u

dude i went to a high school w/o classes and did not attend college at all i thought i was exempt from this shit

it is never too late to learn

look at caek, he has to work out how galaxies are shaped based on math

that shit is scary-level intelligent

math is very important to cricket, btw

whatever caek doesnt even believe in dark energy - i mean come on

dark energy is very important to cricket

we are verging on douglas adams territory here folks

is that what u tell the kids before you start teaching them implicit differentiation??

whoa differentiation is not GCSE, calculus has to wait until high school finals

guess papers?

we have guess papers CBSE board of Math approved 2006-2007 comfort delectation and confidence :)

halp i need to know how long a day is on the moon this is the only thing between me and oxford university cricket team need GCSE guess papers answers

all you need is to be a half-decent australian/south african club cricketer, then to apply to Oxford Brookes University to do Business and Management Studies, then you automatically get into Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence side :) hope this helps

the moon is always showing us the same face, which means that sunrises are separated by the amount of time it takes to go round the earth (i.e. 28 days). maybe draw a diagram if this is difficult to imagine.

lj has kinda the right idea for why it shows us the same face.

back already?

just can't get enough

so is "sports" you yanquis are so cute!

― caek

damn! didn't know it was actually sportamethics

caek will u post more math problems for high school students????