Mathgirl

We are adopting a cat whose name is Bear. This is only his shelter name, so I doubt he is accustomed to it. I m not crazy about that name for a cat. He is a male, and his color is all black. Should we give him a new name? If so, what should it be?

a, k and b are all natural numbers. I thought about induction or contradiction, but my prof says use a more direct method. I'm stumped...

Suppose you work in an office. There is a box of assorted chocolates in the lunchroom. (Assume that it's not the kind that gives you the little map of what's inside them.) A coworker who is a picky eater wants to see what is inside before choosing one. She cuts the chocolates open with a knife to peek inside. If it is something she doesn't like, she leaves it in the box (even though it is cut open) for her co-workers. When asked whether this involves touching the chocolate, she answers, "Hardly. And my hands are clean." Would you consider this to be a problem if you were a co-worker?

I just got a Kindle II for my birthday. Since I usually take books out of the library, I wondered if there is anything like that for the Kindle. Is my only choice to purchase books from Amazon?