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Need to make 90 pounds of a cocoa mix to sell at $12.33 per pound. I have Cocoa A at $10.60/ lb. and Cocoa B @ 14.80 / lb. How many pound of each will I need?

I think the teachers are teaching this wrong. Question: Ailsa has to buy the following fruit:

3 bushels of apples at $16 a bushel; 9 kiwis at $1 each, 9 bunches of bananas at $2 per bunch. Estimate how much Ailsa needs to make this purchase and chose the answer from among: $21, $74, $60, or $90.

The correct answer given on the test is $90.

My contention is that the correct answer in an estimation problem should be the choice closest to the actual amount (48 + 9 =57 + 18 = $75). I'd say that the right choice given these is $74, since it is closest, and a worse choice is $90.

It was explained to me that "you must first round everything, then do the steps." So the 16s all become 20s. 3 x 20 = 60. Then the 18 bucks for bananas rounds to another 20 and the kiwis round to 10.

I think it should be at best: 3 x 16 rounds to $50; +$10 (kiwis) + $20 (bananas) = $80. That choice is not given.

The question doesn't say to round to the tens place and it assumes kids will round first rather than multiplying first. Is this the right way to teach math, to get an inaccurate estimate?

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And why would you apply a rule to round first and then round each bushel of apples to 20 and then multiply but, in an inconsistent way, multiply the bananas first (9 x2) and then round? Is the rule really "round first, then multiply"? Or is it "multiply first and then round"?

And if you round the bananas first (as the test writer explained to me that you should do), do you round them to zero each? This is nuts. Poor kids. Poor teachers.

I think the teachers are teaching this wrong. Question: Ailsa has to buy the following fruit:

3 bushels of apples at $16 a bushel; 9 kiwis at $1 each, 9 bunches of bananas at $2 per bunch. Estimate how much Ailsa needs to make this purchase and chose the answer from among: $70, $74, $60, or $90.

The correct answer given on the test is $90.

My contention is that the correct answer in an estimation problem should be the choice closest to the actual amount (48 + 9 =57 + 18 = $75). I'd say that the right choice given these is $74, since it is closest, but the worst choice is $90.

It was explained to me (a lowly classroom teacher) that you must first round everything. So the 16s all become 20s. 3 x 20 = 60. The 18 bucks for bananas rounds to another 20 and the kiwis round to 10.

I think it should be at best: 3 x 18 rounds to $50; +10 (kiwis) + 20 (bananas) = $80. That choice is not given.

The question doesn't say to round to the tens place and it assumes kids will round first rather than multiplying first. Is this the right way to teach math, to get an inaccurate estimate?

I really think we should do away with the apostrophe. Its really not worth the bother and I dont think anyone needs it. If youre reading this, youve undoubtedly been able to understand what Ive written. Even in possessives and numbers (like 2010s), theres really no necessity for an apostrophe. Youd be able to distinguish between the two Johns boat and Johns two boats even w/o the apostrophe.

So, how do we get rid of the silly thing? Texters generally dont us them, although autocorrects do. (I wish they didnt).

For reasons I won't go in to, my husband and I dislike one daughter-in-law and have come to despise the other daughter-in-law. (My shrink, whom I started seeing because of that DIL's meanness, calls that daughter-in-law "horrible" (and DIL is horrible even to her own daughters and her parents and my "castrated" son).

I re-wrote my will today. If I die first, my grandkids each get 1% and my husband gets the rest (94%). If he predeceases me, 50% of my estate goes to my foster daughter, and the rest is split evenly among the grandchildren, to be held in trust by their fathers (that is, my two sons, who will be co-executors). My sons can charge the estate for their work as executors, but that's all they will get. The will stipulates that the grandchildren's inheritances will not be distributed to them until their respective mothers are dead.

What is your opinion? Is this a good way to get my revenge? My husband intends to do the same in regard to his will.

Suddenly everybody is pink and green. How do I fix it? Apple (damn them lately!) won't allow support questions unless I pay a fortune.

Wondering because there is a house on my block where there was a suicide. Wondering if an atheist would have no trouble buying it because he/she couldn't logically believe in ghosts.

I'm a Yankee (I'm told).

1. Should I be teaching my grandchildren to say "Yes, Ma'am" to me and other women and "No, sir," to Grandpa?

2. Should they be calling adults who are my friends "Miss Rose" and "Mr. Tom"? If not, what?

3. Should I refer to their mother as Mama or Mommy?

4. Should I be calling my colleagues at work by first name or Ms. Last Name?

5. Should I start saying ma'am and sir to everyone? Or are there certain people I'm not supposed to say that to? (For example, will a waiter or someone I'm paying for a service feel offended or mocked if I call him/her sir or ma'am?"

Thanks you, true modern Southerners.

I just opened a jar of chow-chow and would like to use it creatively tomorrow night for my book club guests. They are Southerners; I am not. Is this eaten warm or hot ever, like with sliced hot dogs? (I sometimes make kielbasa and sauerkraut in a crock-pot, but I know Southerners don't go in much for sauerkraut.) Or can you serve it on bread or crackers or biscuits? I have lots of biscuits in the

fridge that I could make. I also have left-over chicken gravy from tonight. Thanks for suggestions.

I win 90% of the games I play at scores from 400-525. I don't chat much except with one guy. Why don't people like to play with me in life in general and even in WWF?

The elementary kids I'm tutoring (and I) can't remember the difference between these terms. Associative uses parentheses and associates in groups whereas commutative goes round trip like a commuter, right? Does that explanation make sense? A + (B + C) = (A + B) + C versus A+ B + B + A Is that it, the former equation being associative and the latter being commutative?

My daughter-in-law is mad at me because I sent her 3 links about 1-minute-per child's age for time-outs.

She had put her 3 year old on a hard-backed kitchen chair for 60 minutes for coloring on the walls. There was no paper available and the child had access to the markers. While she sat there (in the kitchen on the "punish chair," as they call it), my son obediently went along with Mommy.

I arrived and learned what happened from the three year old after I had sat on the chair and put her on my lap. Mommy offered me fruit salad and the younger 2 year old grapes and strawberries. When I gave a bite of my strawberry to the "criminal", Mommy said, "No food till her hour is up in 20 minutes." I quietly told my son that she shouldn't be getting more than three minutes and should be helping to clean up the mess she made. He shrugged his shoulders in the direction of his wife to indicate he didn't want to cross her.

Mommy was busy making a last-minute party for her own birthday (although I had said I would babysit and pay for her to have dinner with her husband), so she and my son were cleaning and cooking frantically and paying no attention to the kids. I cut my visit very short and took the two-year-old to my house (as the three-year-old was still to be punished) to get requested things for their party. I also sent the 3 links to the experts' advice on time outs.

Mommy hasn't spoken to me for a week. After her party she phone and raged about how she had every right to discipline her child however she wanted. My son said I had to support her in this. She said even if she had her daughter kneel on corn kernals for an hour or even if she beat her, I had to promise I would not judge her or tell her not to.

What do you think?

Tithing should be on your disposable income. That is, you should tithe on what is left after you have paid your rent or mortgage, for for healthful food, for utilities, health and car insurance, car expenses (gas, repairs, payments), children's diapers, health and medicine, all taxes, dues, very basic clothes and make-up and hygiene and cleaning essentials for your first home, essential home repair, for charities such as food banks, and education. When you subtract these expenses from your gross income, you have the net income on which, if you tithe, you should tithe.

Disposable income includes expenses you make for personal investments, second homes, nonessential home repairs, for restaurant celebrations, most clothes other than essentials, all expensive or non-essential clothes, junk food, travel, entertainment such as sports and theater and movies and videos and music, second homes, extra cars and other luxury items like boats or RVs, gifts -- including most from "Santa" for your own family.

You would, of course, not cheat God of His tithe by considering expenses for your dressage horse to be "non-disposable income."

So if your income left after all the expenses listed in the first paragraph above were $100, you would need to give $10 to your church, but if your income were $1,000,000,000 after all the paragraph 1 essential living expenses were subtracted, you would have to pay $100,000,000, leaving you still with $900,000,000 for yourself, not God or others. Is this correct as you see it, and is it fair?

My daughter in law from Romania has a big problem. She bought lots of building materials ($30 K) to make a home for vacations and retirement in Romania. However, my son in the military and she (an adjunct prof) with 2 little babies really don't have money to spare for anything. They have spent so much on travel so the grands can see the babies and on the house materials and on help to the poor Romanian relatives plus their own American house which is now underwater.

Last month the 4 of them (my son, d-i-l, and babies) went back to romania expecting to live in the house that my d-i-l's brother built. But the house was filled to the rafters, literally, with leftover building materials and bags and bags and bags of things, mostly old clothes, that her mother had acquired over the years. My son spent their entire vacation clearing out the house so that they could put in tile floors and sheet rock, a job that should have taken days,not weeks. They got my dil's mother to remove much of her stuff from their house. (The land was paid for with money my d-i-l had sent to her mother for food and clothes for herself and her very ancient father).

Now the m-i-l is constantly crying, saying she wants to be dead and never wants to see my d-i-l ever again. She refuses to speak to my d-i-l but has profusely apologized to my son, who was enraged to see the state of their house with all the hoarded clutter.

What advice would you give my daughter in law and son about making things better again? I'm just trying to be a supportive listener to my kids, but I really feel that they were very harsh with this generous old woman who was hoping her daughter would come "home" someday. My d-i-l has, like her mother, cried her eyes out over all the tension, and the sadness is upsetting to all the extended family including the Americans and the Romanians. I would hate to see a permanent rift. Her father and mother are both old and ill.

Lincoln corresponded with Marx/Engels and even my dad (now dead) toyed with Socialist ideas. Dad, like the country, became completely disenamored of Socialism. I don't know why, and I can only speculate. When did Socialism become something Americans began to loathe?

I want to make a bread pudding using Cross and Blackwell's mincemeat. When would you recommend I add the mincemeat? I thought I might put a layer of bread, cover with the egg/milk/butter/sugar/vanilla mixture, then a layer of the jarred mincemeat, and finally another layer of the bread and the egg/milk/butter/sugar mix. Or would it be better to put the mincemeat on top or on the bottom or just stirred into the pudding?

They are clearly not being rude, but so many black women are calling me "Mommy." I'm a white-haired white woman who recently moved from NY to VA. How long has it been common to call someone "mommy" and what should I conclude about it? Is it used only to address clearly older women?

My granddaughter gave me an iPhone 3G, but it loses its charge SO quickly. I need a cheap, easy-to-use phone with just the capacity to phone and text -- no apps for anything else needed. What do you recommend? (New 3G phones without a plan are SO expensive. I need something big and inexpensive that I can transfer my sim card to.) Thanks