Equations with parenthesis?

misheeru · 2010-10-20 05:55:06

Don't be so modest. At least I'm not telling them about that pair in the back of your closet with the British flag print from your days in the punk scene.

bobbym · 2010-10-20 05:57:46

I never was into any scene. I was my own scene.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 06:10:30

Oh, so you were the pink vinyl type. I see. Very good.

bobbym · 2010-10-20 06:12:00

Nope. I was the intellectual type until the world turned me vicious.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 06:13:35

Atari lover with checkered pants and rainbow suspenders?

bobbym · 2010-10-20 06:15:57

Nope. I hated Atari, Commodore and Apple. I would not wear rainbow suspenders. There is no musician in me.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 06:17:15

What do suspenders have to do with being a musician? And.. AHAH! You did not deny the checkered pants.

bobbym · 2010-10-20 06:18:26

I did have two pairs of weird pants. I do not know why I ever bought them. I prefer solids.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 06:19:40

What did they have on them???????

bobbym · 2010-10-20 06:22:54

Brown checkered and the other was lighter with weird lines. Thinking about it now, they showed incredibly bad taste.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 06:23:41

You mean plaid? For the last one?

bobbym · 2010-10-20 06:26:15

The first one was like plaid , I guess. The second one was psychedelic. A term that predates you by thousands of years. Anyway, they were and are bad taste.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 06:30:11

So you are assuming I wouldn't have heard the word "psychedelic"? If I recall correctly, that is a 60's thing, which predates me by about 30 or 40 years, not thousands.

bobbym · 2010-10-20 06:31:42

which predates me by about 30 or 40 years, not thousands.

Same difference.

My grandparents who were around back then told me all about it.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 07:56:04

I believe my aunt was a teen around that time. She never told me about it. Its too late to ask, she committed suicide about two years ago..

bobbym · 2010-10-20 07:58:49

I am sorry to hear that. Just ask me if you ever want to know about that time.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 08:55:44

Its alright. thanks

do you by any chance have time for a math problem???

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bobbym · 2010-10-20 09:00:30

Yes, post it.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 09:04:28

Okay. thanks!

Find the equation of the line below. Arrange your answer in the form y = mx + b, where b is the constant.

bobbym · 2010-10-20 09:12:59

Hi misheeru;

What a nice neat diagram. To answer the question use the point, point formula.

You have your two points:

( 0 , -3 ) which you label ( x1 , y1 )

( 4 , -1 ) which you label ( x2 , y2 )

Now you just plug in:

Can you take it from here?

misheeru · 2010-10-20 09:27:20

Okay, so I'll take care of the middle one.

So that comes to y -(-3) = 2/4(x - 0). right?

bobbym · 2010-10-20 09:34:24

Yes, but be careful with that goofy notation they are allowing students to use today. You still have not got it in y = m * x + b form.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 09:35:37

What do you mean?

bobbym · 2010-10-20 09:37:55

You have not cleaned it up yet.

misheeru · 2010-10-20 09:40:36

So, like

y = 2/4x - 3?

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