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IMDB rating: 7.00 Plot: Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older brother Van are exploring “the other”: in Ben’s case, it’s friendship with Sylvia, a Black student; with Van, it’s a party in the WASP part of town and falling for a debutante, Dubbie. Sylvia gives Ben tickets to a James Brown concert; Dubbie invites Van to a motel: new worlds open. Meanwhile, their dad Nate, who runs a numbers game, loses big to a small-time pusher, Little Melvin; a partnership ensues. |
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Math explanation please?
Okay. So I am not cheating I know the answers, I just don’t understand how to get them.
Here is the question:
The heights of five famous human-made structures are related as follows:
- The height of the Statue of Liberty is 65 feet more than half the height of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
-The height of the Eiffel Tower is 36 feet more than three times the height of Big Ben.
-The Great Pyramid at Giza is 164 feet taller than Big Ben.
-The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 137 feet shorter than Big Ben.
-The total of all the heights is nearly half a mile. In fact, the sum of the five heights is 2264 feet.
Find the height of each of the five structures.
I am not trying to cheat. I have been working on this problem for an hour. I eventually just looked up the height of Big Ben and worked from there. I am desperate to learn how to do this please help me.
And if it helps you help me, the heights are:
Eiffel Tower = 984ft.
Statue of Liberty = 305ft.
The Great Pyramid = 580ft.
Big Ben = 316ft.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa = 179ft.
Thank you all so much for your help!!!!!
Let S = the height of the Statue of Liberty
Let E = the height of the Eiffel Tower
Let G = the height of the Great Pyramid
Let L = the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Let B = the height of Big Ben
We’re given:
1) S = 65+?G
2) E = 36+3B
3) G = 164+B
4) L = B-137
5) S + E + G + L + B = 2264
We need to solve this 5-variable system of equations.
Notice that E, G and L are all expressed in terms of B.
We want to express S in terms of B as well.
Substitute equation #3 into equation #1 and solve:
S = 65 + ?G
S = 65 + ?(164+B)
S = 65 + 82 + ?B
S = 147 + ?B
This is our new equation #1
Now substitute the first four equations into equation #5:
S + E + G + L + B = 2264
(147+?B) + (36+3B) + (164+B) + (B-137) + B = 2264
147 + ?B + 36 + 3B + 164 + B + B - 137 + B = 2264
210 + 6.5B = 2264
6.5B = 2054
B = 316
So Big Ben is 316 feet tall.
Plug that into equations 2 thru 5 to find the other values.
Sonyka K | Aug 26, 2009
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