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I got a very close answer, I just needed help with the steps, so thank you my friend.

"Sic" is Latin for "thus" and means "intentionally so written" here, signifying that the preceding text is meant to be read as is, and not corrected should you find something wrong with it.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops).

Also, Google makes a fine friend, etc.

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you asking what makes a good or valid hypothesis? (in that case: " * Testability (or falsifiability) * Simplicity (as in the application of "Occam's Razor", discouraging the postulation of excessive numbers of entities) * Scope - the apparent application of the hypothesis to multiple cases of phenomena * Fruitfulness - the prospect that a hypothesis may explain further phenomena in the future * Conservatism - the degree of "fit" with existing recognised knowledge-systems" --Wikipedia's "Hypothesis") Otherwise, can you elaborate?

Associative property: Any group of terms being added result in the same sum regardless of order.

One centimeter is ten millimeters, so 100mm = 10cm. (5/9) - (9/9) Complete operations in parentheses: ~.55 - 1 = ~.44

50,000.

"People knew the Earth was round 2500 years ago. They just forgot. Because Earth-bound observers could only view a small section of the globe at a time, it wasn't possible to tell from direct observation whether the Earth was a flat disk or a sphere. The Greeks were the first to theorize that the Earth was round. Scholars like Pythagoras in 500 BC based their belief on observations about the way the altitudes of stars varied at different places on Earth and how ships appeared on the horizon. As a ship returned to port, first its mast tops, then the sails, and finally its hull gradually came into view. Aristotle, who lived 300 years before Christ, observed that the Earth cast a round shadow on the moon. When a light is shined on a sphere, it casts the same shadow. The Greeks calculated the general size and shape of the Earth. They also created the grid system of latitude and longitude, so that with just two coordinates one can locate any point on the Earth. Greek philosophers also concluded that the Earth could only be a sphere because that, in their opinion, was the "most perfect" shape. Around 150 AD, Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, compiled an encyclopedia of the ancient world from the archives of a legendary library in Alexandria, Egypt. His eight-volume Geography included extensive maps of the known world, all based on a curved globe. Unfortunately, learning and intellect went out of fashion in Europe between 400 and 1200 AD. The storehouses of Greek knowledge were lost to Western society with the advent of the gloomy period known as the Dark Ages. Sea monsters and Vikings ruled the seas, and ships that ventured too far from shore were sure to fall off the edge of a flat Earth. Maps made in that time were based on religious beliefs or superstitions, not on observations, calculations, or scientific inquiry. Rectangular maps of the Earth represented the "four corners of the Earth." Circular maps usually placed the birthplace of Christianity, the holy city of Jerusalem, at the center of the world. After 1250, map making in Europe took a turn for the better. Land maps and nautical charts were produced for travelers using measurements and observation rather than mythology and literary sources. In Europe, the Middle Ages progressed into the Age of Discovery. Meanwhile, the Arab world had preserved Ptolemy's Geography. Ptolemy's works were rediscovered by the Western world and translated into Latin. Ptolemy's map projections explaining how to represent a sphere on a flat piece of paper enabled cartographers and explorers to chart newly-discovered lands and seas. The invention of the printing press made it possible for more people to use, circulate, and refine maps. Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492 confirmed that the Earth was round. Magellan's crew proved the fact definitively by circling the globe on a three-year voyage from 1519-1522. Map making joined hand in hand with the Age of Discovery." -- Some website that I can't post because Jiskha is being silly. Google query "discover round earth" and similar terms seem promising as well.

It seems that, many times, you're simply rewriting the sentence or omitting the situation in which you would have to use the punctuation in question, where, if I'm not mistaken, you should be changing the sentence so that the punctuation given is used correctly. "Punctuating Sentences: He took the curve too sharply, it caused an accident. Your answer: He took the curve too sharply, causing an accident." Try: "He took the curve too sharply; it caused an accident." "Punctuation-Dash Pens come in all sphaes-my favorite is an ergonomic one shaped like a wishbone. Your answer: Pens come in all shapes. My favorite is an ergonomic on shaped like a wishbone." Try: "Pens come in all shapes -- my favorite is an ergonomic one shaped like a wishbone." "Punctuation-Hyphen: The high rise building is located at 3114 Main Street. Your Answer: No Change" Try: "The high-rise..." Outside of the punctuation ones: "Your answer: Eating fresh organges , can often help keep away the cold virus." The comma there isn't necessary. "Inclusive Language-Nonracist and nonagist Language: We need more manpower to finish the job on schedule." I can't see how that's at all racist or ageist -- sexist, perhaps, so if we're being generally PC here it needs a change, but 'power' doesn't seem to fit well. How about 'workers' or 'employees'? Sorry, I have to go now; I imagine someone else can help with the rest.

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It's not saying the entire world knew that the earth was spherical and was suddenly struck by mass amnesia. This: "The storehouses of Greek knowledge were lost to Western society with the advent of the gloomy period known as the Dark Ages. Sea monsters and Vikings ruled the seas, and ships that ventured too far from shore were sure to fall off the edge of a flat Earth. Maps made in that time were based on religious beliefs or superstitions, not on observations, calculations, or scientific inquiry. Rectangular maps of the Earth represented the "four corners of the Earth." Circular maps usually placed the birthplace of Christianity, the holy city of Jerusalem, at the center of the world." Is the key text concerned with that.

Sugar is a mass noun (similar to 'money', 'water', and 'air' in that it cannot be referred to as individual units by that noun. For example: Not a money, but a /unit/ of money such as a dollar or a pound. Not an air, but some air, or a litre of air. Not a sugar, but some sugar or a grain of sugar. Wikipedia's article on mass nouns can expand on this. TL;DR: Do you need any sugar?

Just plug in each of the constants given and solve for F: F = 9/5(-10) + 32 F = 1.8(-10) + 32 F = -18 + 32 F = 14

The person who wrote that article seems to be implying that, yes. I don't have personal knowledge of this but it makes some sense. I'd see if other sources say the same, though.

7y + 4 = ? (7/8)w - 8 = ? (1/9)(p + q) = ? (2b)(4 + p) = ? m + (2m + 5) = ? The last seems a bit vague and I see two possibilities: A) 4^3(y - 8) B) (4y)^3 - 8

Have you tried Gnutella? (Gnutella clients include Frostwire and BearShare). Search torrent sites as well (Google: torrent search) to see if you can find it.

* Place one number above the other so that the hundreds', tens' and ones' places are lined up. Draw a line under the bottom number. 529 67 * Multiply the two numbers in the ones' places. (9 * 7 = 63). This number is larger than 9 so place a 6 above the tens' place column and place 3 below the line in the ones' place column. 6 529 67 3 * Muliply the digit in the top tens' place column (2) by the digit in the lower ones' place column (7). The answer (2*7=14) is added to the 6 above the top tens' place column to give an answer of 20. The 0 of 20 is placed below the line and the 2 of the 20 is placed above the hundreds' place column. 26 529 67 03 * The hundreds' place of the top number (5) is multiplied by the ones' place of the multiplier (5*7=35). The two that was previously carried to the hundreds' place is added and the 37 is placed below the line. 26 529 67 3703 * After 529 has been multiplied by 7 as shown above, 529 is multiplied by the tens' place of the multiplier which is 6. The number is moved one place to the left because we are multiplying by a tens' place number. The result would be 3174: 15 529 67 3703 3174 * A line is drawn under the lower product (3174) and the products are added together to get the final answer of 35443. 15 529 67 3703 3174 35443

Ha! Horizontal rules didn't copy and spaces removed... Last one looks like this; the rest should be obvious from it: 15 529 * _67 * ----- _3703 3174 ----- 35443

It means 'vernacular' -- a colloquial term is a nonstandard slang or idiomatic word or phrase such as 'duh', 'gonna', or 'dead as a doornail'.

Google: 'cia world factbook' for an atlas entry of each country.

(Note: Exponentiation can be expressed with a carat before the exponent: 3*10^2) 4.5 * 10^-3 (/negative/ third) is .0045. You've got the sign wrong is all. Just follow order of operations (exponent, then multiply that product by the other term) to get the others.

An easier way that I hadn't remembered is to move the decimal point (in 4.5 in this example) to the left (negative) or right (positive) for the value of the exponent (we moved left 3 here).

Because it has mass and occupies space, meeting the definition of matter.

Cytoplasm, projected to form a pseudopod. Google "dictyostelida"; first entry is an encyclopedia entry on the phylum of cellular slime molds.

Google: "X units1 in X units2" converts X in units1 to X in units2; example: 1,000,000 seconds in years returns: 1 000 000 seconds = 0.0316887646 years That's a bit strange, so convert to smaller units: 0.0316887646 years = 1.65343915 weeks 1.65343915 weeks = 11.5740741 days

Um. ô.o Blood's not a tissue.

End point is the point in a titration (Google: 'define:titration') at which a sudden physical change occurs, such as a change in the colour of pH indicator, occurs.

XD Scratch redundancy.

To find the result of an expression; e.g., to evaluate 5*5 results in 25.

You can guess and check -- play high-low by picking numbers and squaring them until you zero in on the correct one, or use the algorithm explained in the third Google result for 'calculate square root' entitled 'calculate square root without a calculator.

Should be: "We buy windows to keep an eye on the wind. We also use them to keep heat in when it's cold outside." If you're to really optimize it: "We buy windows to keep an eye on the wind and to keep heat in when it's cold outside." By is a preposition; buy is to purchase. Too is 'overly' ("It is too hot"); to is a preposition used here to indicate an infinitive. If the lack of a period at the end is intentional, there should be one (otherwise you made a typo). The two sentences can be joined into one complex sentence with the conjunction 'and' as in the second example.

"Independent variables are those that are manipulated whereas dependent variables are only measured or registered. This distinction appears terminologically confusing to many because, as some students say, "all variables depend on something." However, once you get used to this distinction, it becomes indispensable. The terms dependent and independent variable apply mostly to experimental research where some variables are manipulated, and in this sense they are "independent" from the initial reaction patterns, features, intentions, etc. of the subjects. Some other variables are expected to be "dependent" on the manipulation or experimental conditions. That is to say, they depend on "what the subject will do" in response. Somewhat contrary to the nature of this distinction, these terms are also used in studies where we do not literally manipulate independent variables, but only assign subjects to "experimental groups" based on some pre-existing properties of the subjects. For example, if in an experiment, males are compared with females regarding their white cell count (WCC), Gender could be called the independent variable and WCC the dependent variable." -- From Google query "independent dependent variables difference", result 3: "Elementary Concepts in Statistics".

Thankya. :D

No, that's the passive voice. In the active voice, the subject of the verb performs an action; e.g., "He killed the President". In the passive voice, the subject of the verb receives the action; e.g., "The President was killed". Or, "Accidents are witnessed every day". An easy way to differentiate is to remember that if the sentence does not explicitly state /who/ performed the described action, it is probably in the passive voice.

Definitions of distribution coefficient on the Web: The quantity of a solute sorbed by a solid, per unit weight of solid, divided by the quantity of the solute dissolved in the water per unit volume of water. The distribution coefficient is characteristic of the solute and the solvent pair. It determines the ratio of solute in the two solvents. Google query "define:WORD".

(-12) - ((-17) / (-23)) - (-23) = 10.2608696 Google will perform calculations like this. Just type it into the search field.

I suppose you could change it to 31*10^4; it's all I can think to do here.

As far as I know, primrose isn't a compound noun. I suppose War would depend on what's meant by it -- may be the simple definition of a war (a conflict) in which case I would say it's concrete, but don't take my word for it; or it could refer to the idea of war and all that comes with it, including the horror, tragedy, loss, etc. which might be more abstract. I'm not entirely sure, to be honest; was just thinking aloud.

sorry i put the wrong question as I know this one what is loge25

I would choose option 1 (not out of any knowledge in the subject but out of common sense telling me that children aren't going to ask for a story because it's Integral To My Development, but because they like learning, like the story, and like avoiding whatever else it is they could be doing instead of sitting around listening to you read).

Crackle.

Wow, this is a rather popular question. See jiskha(.)com/display.cgi?id=1188941103

I tend to believe only what I can see [evidence of]; this includes intangible but proven things such as physical laws. Lacking a belief in anything which is not readily proven, I have no reason to not believe that anything I think to be real is real.

Hear, hear.

We can be courteous and nice. I personally consider it more of a detriment for a student (which I am as well; stop with the "wah, you can't relate to me" business) to be given any answers. I know you hate this by now, but that won't fly in the Real World. We can help you along, hint, tell you /how/ to get an answer so you can do all of them yourself, and give you resources, but we will rarely give you answers to use without knowing how the subject works or how we arrived at the answer. It really doesn't help you.

It's a personal narrative, actually; I shouldn't have called it an essay. It isn't meant to be overly formal so I'm allowing myself a bit of looseness but not all-out incorrectness in grammar, if you see what I mean.

Thanks, all. Ms. Sue: Is "I did try" any different from "I tried"? It seems to insist that I /did/ try, rather than inform that I tried with no especial emphasis, but is it gramatically different?

(I have no formal education on the subject but have recently begun studying linguistics and can't help wondering why I do certain things in language and whether they're incorrect/awkward/perfectly fine).

I think the only words that take no articles (a/an/the) ever are proper nouns ("A Cindy"; "The Canada"). Mass nouns or noncountable nouns such as furniture and data can't be expressed as "A [noun]" but as "A [unit] of [noun]", as in "A piece of furnitune", but "the furniture" works. Come to think of it, I am coming up with some proper nouns that can take a definite article (the) but they're mostly brand names used in place of generic terms. I'm not sure if there's any sort of noun that never takes an article or what it would be called.

True, and that's why people learning foreign languages, especially without practising it as it's actually used by living in a region that speaks the language, may never reach the fluency a native speaker has. It almost discourages me from learning them. :P Thanks for all the help.

If you haven't already read them, I recommend Watership Down (Richard Adams), pretty much anything by George Orwell that catches your eye (especially "1984"), and Fahrenheit 451. If you like fantasy, David and Leigh Eddings have some good books; my favorites were The Redemption of Althalus, and Belgarath the Sorcerer.

I don't think so. There's a rhyme (in/pin) but no assonance (repeated vowel sounds; think alliteration with vowels).

On second thought, I was too focused on "Look, there's a rhyme, probably not assonance" to notice: Let in said pin Where, depending on pronunciation, you could get the same (or close to the same) eh sound in each word, as well as 'the'. I'm not sure, honestly. I'm never sure. I don't know why I post here.

Meniscus. (Measure at the bottom of it.)

100,000 what? One mL = 1/1000 litres; 1,000 microlitres (µl) and 1,000,000 nanolitres (nl), but there's no prefix that results from 1 ml converted into another measure of litres.

What do you mean? I can't decide whether you want to parse a sentence or decrypt something.

Can you post some examples?

A manor was, in medieval England, an agricultural estate owned by the lord of the manor, in part leased to and farmed by tenants. I've seen it used to refer to a mansion or similarly large house, but not a castle.

Neither. ô.o If anything, it's assonance.

Google "anagram generator" and try there. Maybe someone will come along with methods of doing it yourself. I'm rubbish at things like this so can't help you there. :P

I think that "Hizo pedazos de los coches" might be what you need, as it would transliterate into "It made pieces of the cars" rather than "It made pieces the cars", but "hizo pedazos [noun]" could be idiomatic or not necessarily grammatical, so I'm not entirely sure.

Sand and other substances that will not dissolve in water.

Google query 'online calculator' returns quite a few of them.

Try to find a copy of the Ten Commandments of the Christian bible, and see what is said to come before God. Think also of something you can eat that will eventually kill you, that also meets the other criteria (rich people need it and poor people don't). It's a riddle; don't expect a 'normal' answer -- think laterally.

x - (2x - 8) = 11 Distribute: x - 2x + 8 = 11 Simplify: -x + 8 = 11; solve for x then plug it back in to get the second number.

Project Gutenberg (Google it) has free plain text e-books. Search for 'canterbury' in the sidebar. They seem to have it there.

63/2.7 = x cubic centimeters

Looks all right to me.

It should be 'with'.

x in one half hour equals 2x in one hour; 20km:30mins::40km:60mins.

What's funny is that I don't know /why/. I always see 'with' used here, but have no clue why it is that way. Does anyone know if it has a reason for not being 'for' or 'of' instead, or is it just arbitrary?

Styrofoam and toothpicks?

Colinears, according to Google search "define:colinear" are vectors which lie along the same straight line. I don't know anything about this so I can't explain further but that may help.

I see, thanks. It looks like it might also be possible to use 'toward' (if I'm right in thinking the definition 'in regard to' is in use here) and it does Sound Right but I never see that. I liked English more when I didn't think about it.

A slave counted as 3/5 of a person.

Have you worn a wool sweater?

This alone do I abominate – that this confession has been subjected to the despotism and extortion of the pontiffs. To clarify: "This alone do I abominate: that this confession has been subjected to the despotism and extortion of the pontiffs." It seems to be that Luther is condemning the tendency of clergy and the like to be hypocritical in damning others' sins while committing their own.

I would list essential services such as medical care and food service (welfare of sorts?), but it seems largely up to opinion.

The first should be "Parlez-vous francais?"; the other two seem correct from my knowledge of Romance languages, but I don't speak much French and you should wait for someone who does to clarify.

> is greater than. A good analogy is to imagine that the greater/lesser than sign is a mouth that always turns to eat the larger value. 1 < 2 -- One is less than two; the gluttonous mouth wants the bigger one, of course. ;)

Are you supposed to solve for something?

It's not usual for some people to feel overwhelmed by such an open-ended assignment -- I was often confused when I wasn't told exactly what I was to do (I worried that I'd do it wrong, maybe?). If it were me, I might go for a poster, and come up with creative ways to display things such as the factors of 16, what 16 is divisible by, whether it's odd or even, etc. Or, if I chose a poem, I might compose one that explains those things in verse. Good luck and post if you need more help. :)

Oh, I was doing it wrong, looking at the surrounding context and not the subject it was related to, wasn't I? Thanks.

We're to choose the appropriate verb for the subject El oh el, I fail; I meant pronoun.

Thankya. :o

n. Data entered into a computer; v. To enter data into a computer (as I am by typing).

I'm glad to hear it worked out alright. :D

(y^5)^3(y^3)^2/(y^4)^4 Power of a power: When an exponent has an exponent, both are multiplied and applied to the base of the first. Example: (y^5)^3 = (y^15) When multiplying terms with exponents, the exponents are added: (y^15)(y^6) = (y^21) When dividing, they're subtracted: (y^21)/(y^16) = y^5 I think this is correct; Bob or the like will come along and beat me if it isn't. :P

As far as I know, height is an object's distance from the immediate ground (the distance of the top of a flagpole from the ground below) whereas elevation is the height of an object or area of land above sea level.

A paw is part of a cat. What pair of those choices fits the same description?

The result of the operation. In 8/2 = 4, 4 is the quotient.

Slipping leads to or is a lesser form of falling. What word pair matches that?

I believe that's the one. It may be dozed is to napped, but IMO you're likely correct.

Associative property -- however a group of terms is arranged, their sum remains the same.

It'd be "a la una y media" just as in "es la una..." unless I've forgotten and am doing it wrong. I haven't had to tell time in Spanish outside of classes, funnily enough, so I could have made a mistake.

To indicate the time at which something happens, use "a la..." or "a las..." as in: La clase comenza a la una y media y termina a las dos y catorce -- The class begins at 1:30 and ends at 2:14.

Whoops, thanks. XD

The verb they've given you is wrong; you need to find the correct form of it. Present: Speak. Past: Spoke. Past participle: Spoken. I speak, I spoke, I have spoken. If it's used with a helping verb such as 'have', it's likely a past participle. The appropriate word here is 'spoken'.

I'm having trouble making sense of the first sentence, maybe because I'm tired, but I think 'le' is correct. In 2, the waiter, being not the direct object but affected by the subject's actions on the DO, is the indirect object, and le is correct. In 3, as far as I can tell, the soup is the DO and nosotros is the IO, but for some reason I remember something about how objects of prepositions can't be objects of the verb; see if anyone can clarify this, but it may be nos rather than le. If it is true that prepositional objects can't be verb objects as well, it looks to me like there's only a DO -- the soup -- and it would be le. Really not sure on this one. In 4, I have the same uncertainty about prepositional phrases, but here it should be 'le' whether papa qualifies as a verb object or not. I'm tired, I just Googled this because I'd forgotten all about it, and I really shouldn't be posting at all because I've a tendency to make a fool of myself this late at night, but I'm not sure if anyone else is on. Hopefully Sra. McGin will come around soon and mention any mistakes we made...