#page 671

[thestoopgallants]

[rapidpixeladventure]

Introduce yourself.

{[INTRODUCE]: [Self]}

The three of you quickly exchange pleasantries.

It seems that people around town have already been gossiping about you and your team. Is it really so odd enter the harbor without an airship? Well if everything goes according to plan you’ll have your own airship soon.

You guess that explains why Fix-it!™ is talking so strangely, although you have no idea what a bandwidth is.

[STATUS]

[QUESTS]

[MAP]

(discord server)

What Should We Do Now?

[abookblogofepicproportions]

We're Kanes. We don't run from hard choices.

Carter Kane, A Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

[pwnthesat]

blue book second edition: pg 670 #15

I hate this question. 

Basically, you just gotta look at it and see that, although there’s some fluctuation, there really isn’t any slope to the imaginary trend line you have to draw with your eyeballs (or your pencil).

From experience, I know that lots of kids think the data look like they’re sloping upwards, which is why everyone picks E, which would make the line would go through the points (0, 44), (1, 45), (2, 46), (3, 47), (4, 48), (5, 49), etc. But note that even after 5 practices, two of the three dots are just as bad as they were after one practice, and no dot is better than it was after 2 practices. There's really no change at all, especially not the kind you'd expect if you really thought about it, which would be that hamsters would get faster with practice. Choice E has them getting progressively slower the more practice they get. That seems crazy, right?

One thing you might try to convince yourself is to set your graphing calculator’s window to the same dimensions as the graph you’re given and try and plot the only two tempting choices (A and E) and see which one looks better to you.