Math for Y2K - from Hare Krsna Dasi

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Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA)

21-Oct-98 17:41

For: Apocalypse 1999? (Are you ready?)

Math for Y2K

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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ENJOY DIFFICULT MATH. SOME REAL INSIGHTS

FOLLOW!!!

ENJOY!

 

Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.

His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

 

Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.

His

cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

 

Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a

set

"M" of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth

one

dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M". The set

"C", the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set "M."

Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following

question: What is the cardinality of the set "P" for profits?

 

Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.

Her

cost of production is $80 and her profit is $20. Your assignment:

Underline the number 20.

 

Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the

logger

makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for

class participation after answering the question: How did the forest

birds

and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong

answers.

 

Teaching Math in 1996: By laying off 40% of its loggers, a company

improves its stock price from $80 to $100. How much capital gain per

share

does the CEO make by exercising his stock options at $80? Assume

capital

gains are no longer taxed, because this encourages investment.

 

Teaching Math in 1997: A company outsources all of its loggers. The firm

saves on benefits, and when demand for its product is down, the logging

work force can easily be cut back. The average logger employed by the

company earned $50,000, had three weeks vacation, a nice retirement plan

and medical insurance. The contracted logger charges $50 an hour. Was

outsourcing a good move?

 

Teaching Math in 1998: A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a

ridiculous alimony from his first failed marriage comes into the

logging-company corporate offices and goes postal, mowing down 16

executives and a couple of secretaries, and gets lucky when he

nails a politician on the premises collecting his kickback. Was

outsourcing

the loggers a good move for the company?

 

Teaching Math in 1999: A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom for

blowing away several people is being trained as a COBOL programmer in

order

to work on Y2K projects. What is the probability that the automatic

cell

doors will open on their own as of 00:01, 01/01/2000?

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