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Business › Re: 1.2million Nigerians To Get Soft Loan by joinnow: 11:32am On Dec 05, 2016
Who soft loan help.
See him mouth from 20k
Naija too fall hand
Pets › Re: Help! My Dog Stools Anywhere And Roll In It by joinnow: 12:12pm On Nov 29, 2016
My friend google about potty training a puppy.use Bleach to clean all the places your puppy poo
Dog poo some minutes after feeding.
After Feeding time take ur puppy to where you want it to poo .......
Make it a routine
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: You Go For A Job Interview And They Ask You This by joinnow: 11:35am On Nov 29, 2016
Emary:
The simple way to do this in case of any of you do run across this again is to add the 1st and last digit i.e. 1 + 64 = 65. Then 64 divided by 2 = 32. Your answer is 65 multiplied by 32 = 2080.
Wrong tongue
Answer is uncountable
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: You Go For A Job Interview And They Ask You This by joinnow: 11:10am On Nov 29, 2016
Another puzzle involving exponential functions goes like this :
A particular lake has water lilies growing on it. On the first day, there is one water lily. Each day, the number of water lilies doubles. After 30 days, the water lilies cover half the lake. How long before they also cover the other half of the lake, so the whole lake is full?
The answer is both obvious and very surprising - the lilies that took 30 days to cover half the lake take only one more day to cover the other half. They fill the lake on day 31.
I've prepared, here, some worksheets for kids to help them learn about this kind of amazing math. The worksheet goes with a story - a modern version, if you like, of the rice and chessboard legend. It goes like this.

You are offered a job, which lasts for 7 weeks. You get to choose your salary.

Either, you get $100 for the first day, $200 for the second day, $300 for the third day. Each day you are paid $100 more than the day before.
Or, you get 1 cent for the first day, 2 cents for the second day, 4 cents for the third day. Each day you are paid double what you were paid the day before.
Which do you choose?
Most people unfamiliar with this kind of dilemma will choose the first option. I've provided some printable worksheets to help people work out which is really best. The worksheet uses the currency symbols $ and c. If you are in the United Kingdom, you'll prefer the pounds and pence version. I've also made a version for those in the Eurozone.

You could use the worksheets like this.

Present the story to a group of kids. Feel free to embellish it with lots of imaginative details!
Ask the children to choose which "pay package" they prefer, either $100 for the first day, increasing by $100 per day, or 1 cent for the first day, doubling each day.
Distribute the worksheets. Each worksheet has a grid for calculating the daily wage, and for recording the total earned for each week.
Perhaps as part of their homework assignment, ask them to complete one row of the grid each week. On the next Monday, get them to report the weekly totals, and discuss. Maybe keep a week-by-week tally of how many kids think the first choice is better.
The computations for the first pay package are simple enough. For the second, the numbers start to get large by the third week. You could allow the children to round off the answers to the nearest dollar, then hundred dollars - or, by weeks 4 and 5, thousand and million dollars.
By week 4 it becomes clear that the second choice is better.
If you print the worksheets, you'll see that there are three worksheets, not just two. The third is useful if you also want to introduce the class to the Fibonacci numbers. Here, the deal is

1 cent on the first day, 2 cents on the second, then your salary on any day after that is your total salary on the previous two days.
To help you out, here are the correct weekly (and overall) totals for the three different schemes (without rounding).

For the first choice, the person earns $2800 in week 1, then $7700, $12600, $17500, $22400, $27300 then $32200, for a grand total of $122,500
For the doubling scheme, the person earns $1.27 in week 1, then $162.56, $20807.68, $2,663,383.04, $340,913,029.12, $43,636,867,727.36 then $5,585,519,069,102.08 for a total of $5,629,499,534,213.11.
For the Fibonacci scheme, the totals are $0.53, $15.42, $447.71, $12,999.01, $377,419.00, $10,958,150.01 then $318,163,769.29, for a total of $329,512,800.97.
Note all information is cc from website
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: You Go For A Job Interview And They Ask You This by joinnow: 11:02am On Nov 29, 2016
The wheat and chess problem appears in different stories about the invention of chess. One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is first known to have been recorded in 1256 by Ibn Khallikan.[1] Another version has the inventor of chess (in some tellings Sessa, an ancient Indian Minister) request his ruler give him wheat according to the wheat and chessboard problem. The ruler laughs it off as a meager prize for a brilliant invention, only to have court treasurers report the unexpectedly huge number of wheat grains would outstrip the ruler's resources. Versions differ as to whether the inventor becomes a high-ranking advisor or is executed.[2]

Macdonnell also investigates the earlier development of the theme.[3]

[According to al-Masudi's early history of India], shatranj, or chess was invented under an Indian king, who expressed his preference for this game over backgammon. [...] The Indians, he adds, also calculated an arithmetical progression with the squares of the chessboard. [...] The early fondness of the Indians for enormous calculations is well known to students of their mathematics, and is exemplified in the writings of the great astronomer Āryabaṭha (born 476 A.D.). [...] An additional argument for the Indian origin of this calculation is supplied by the Arabic name for the square of the chessboard, (بيت, "beit"wink, 'house'. [...] For this has doubtless a historical connection with its Indian designation koṣṭhāgāra, 'store-house', 'granary' [...].

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: You Go For A Job Interview And They Ask You This by joinnow: 10:58am On Nov 29, 2016
Cortana2:
You've almost nailed a job and then the interviewer placed on your table a white paper containing the following...

Legend has it that the inventor of the game called chess was told to name his own reward. His reply was along this lines.

Imagine a chess board.

Suppose one grain of corn is placed on the first square.
2 grains on the second
4 grains on the third,
8 grains on the fourth,

and so on until you get to the 64th square.

I would like as many grains of corn as the chess board now carries.

We were given just 5 minutes to do this... angry
Reason you have to read widely and read most motivation books. The story happened in India.
If you add all the grain even the whole grain produce in Nigeria and India will not be enough or equal to the total.
Simply say uncountable
Car Talk › Re: Japanese Vs German Vs American Cars by joinnow: 10:27am On Nov 29, 2016
kaeforum:
Fa fa fa foul!!! Our mechanics are improving their knowledge they can fix many german cars too.

German cars are better. The only good Japanese cars are those ones made in the 90s, the current post millennium models are trouble some and unreliable,
Do you have German car and who bi you mechanic
Cos the one I use once kaboom my car for simple electrical issues
Car Talk › Re: Japanese Vs German Vs American Cars by joinnow: 10:10am On Nov 28, 2016
American car= fuel guzzler, and oversize,
German machine= luxury and high tech
Japanese car = simple tech and fuel efficient
We in Nigeria prefer Simple tech aka
Japanese
Cos 70% of our mechanic only know how to fix Japanese.
If you buy high tech aka German machine hope you go bring your engineer from Germany to fix it if problem start or you take am meet Kamoru that will join two wrong wire and you car go go into flames.
Buy America only if you are into oii bunkery in Nigeria grin
Travel › Re: Lady Trapped Under A Container That Fell On Her In Lagos (Graphic Pics) by joinnow: 10:21pm On Nov 25, 2016
God please have mercy and guide our going out and returning.
Food › Re: Tips On How To Identify Plastic Rice by joinnow: 7:31pm On Nov 25, 2016
lordm:
If it is cheaper and can digest without issues then no problem with me. Ftc
Seem You think with your stomach
So when plastic go digest in your stomach
Politics › Re: Ikpeazu Opens Shopping Mall In Umuahia (pics) by joinnow: 7:58pm On Nov 24, 2016
Nice one

Family › Re: How Does One Cope With A Short Tempered Wife? by joinnow: 5:40am On Nov 23, 2016
Broda I feel for you
Patient.. ...Endurance. ......long suffering
Just apply D 3 above starting from left to right
When you exhaust Patient you move to Endurance
When you exhaust Endurance you change gear enter Long suffering
Do all Dis and pray always
Business › Re: 10 Categories Of People That Will Regret Their Lives When MMM Crashes by joinnow: 9:41pm On Nov 22, 2016
dreezybines:
grin grin men I really love this your write up...
He forget to quote the source
It's a story about share/stock
Politics › Re: Buhari Hails Okoro’s World Bank Appointment, Ogwumike Too by joinnow: 10:15pm On Nov 21, 2016
PMB dey Paley so world bank can approve loan
Foreign Affairs › Re: Cameroonian Man On A Busy Road With A Coffin. Photos by joinnow: 8:52pm On Nov 21, 2016
Biafra Don initiate am grin
Celebrities › Re: Elsie Okpocha Shows Off Her Perfumes by joinnow: 7:03pm On Nov 21, 2016
It's sign of depression
Or do I call it obsession
Sha both has ression &session
Nairaland General › Re: Nigerian Breweries Truck Crushes Man In Nsukka, Truck Set On Fire (Graphic Pics) by joinnow: 4:23pm On Nov 21, 2016
This one no concern witch
Na bad truck driver cos am

Christianity Etc › Re: Lethebo Rabalago Uses Insecticide To 'Heal' Church Members by joinnow: 4:03pm On Nov 21, 2016
Nawaa Wetin Person no go hear self

Business › Re: Recession Proof Business by joinnow: 5:15pm On Nov 20, 2016
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Agriculture › Re: Pig Farmers Lets Meet Here by joinnow:
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Phones › Re: Globacom Offices In Enugu Shut Down Due To Failure To Pay For Office Space by joinnow: 2:35pm On Nov 12, 2016
joinnow:
Step 1
Click on images below submit.. Attachments
It will take you to the image or picture you intend to upload
As show on the screen attached above
Step 2
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The red circle before the smiling thing
It will not appear on the image when posted
Phones › Re: Globacom Offices In Enugu Shut Down Due To Failure To Pay For Office Space by joinnow: 2:30pm On Nov 12, 2016
joinnow:
Step to remove that smiling thing
Step 1
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It will take you to the image or picture you intend to upload
As show on the screen attached above
Step 2
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Phones › Re: Globacom Offices In Enugu Shut Down Due To Failure To Pay For Office Space by joinnow: 2:25pm On Nov 12, 2016
Baroba:
Very annoying and irritating..
Step to remove that smiling thing

Phones › Re: Globacom Offices In Enugu Shut Down Due To Failure To Pay For Office Space by joinnow: 2:18pm On Nov 12, 2016
Redfruit:
yes, they are stupid.
But you can remove it.

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