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 @@ End of Day Wrap   Wed 29/7/15     Sydney, Australia Time   12:31pm  

(Yes it is Thursday already   )

 

Hi all,

 

It has been very quiet, this is the first wrap since last Saturday.    

Our wonderful answerers have been Alan, CPhill, TitaniumRome, Heureka, Geno3141 and Biotomic121.  Thank you.   

 

If you would like to comment on other site issues please do so on the Lantern Thread.  Thank you.    

 

Interest Posts:

FTJ means 'For the juniors' 

1) Vectors, resolving forces at a point.                                Thanks Alan  

2) Simulteous equations with arithemetic progressions         Thanks Alan and Heureka 

3) A stack of dollar bills                                                  Thanks CPhill and Melody     

4) Population growth rate                                                   Thanks Alan              

5) Radioactive decay                                                          Great answers from Alan and Heureka  

6) Difficult algebra simplification                                          Thanks Heureka and Melody    

7) Great indices simplification                                              Thanks Heureka

8) Dabae has asked many good questions on page 1922 and 1923.       FTJ +

I have put a  "?"  icon in the left margin to identify these great questions.  

They are great thinking questions, some are hard but the level of maths needed is only just above primary school.  They would be great puzzles questions for our younger lovers of mathematics that I know we have here.    Thanks for contributing these questions Dabae.   

  

                       ♫♪  ♪ ♫                                ♬ ♬ MELODY ♬ ♬                                 ♫♪ 

Jul 29, 2015
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I think heureka has been misled (in his section (iii)) by the example at : http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/3313/3392670/blb2104.html 

 

We are told directly here that Nt/N0 = 0.65, so that's all we need.

 

If the mass of Uranium now is Nt and the original mass was N0 then heureka's formula for original mass should just be:

N0 = Nt + 0.35*N0   which results in N0 = Nt/(1-0.35), so Nt/N0 = (1-0.35) = 0.65.

We don't need the relative atomic masses of U238 and lead206 (we would do if we had the actual masses of U238 and Pb206 now).

 

heureka's expression for Nt/N0 gives a ratio of just over 71%

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Jul 29, 2015

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