Re: Observations on a Bad Week

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:21:14 GMT, Kim wrote:

>4. Lame Censoring of the Week: One of those knock off American Idol shows

>has a teen singing competition. One of the girls sang "Lady Marmalade"
and 
>instead of singing "Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir", she sang
"Voulez 
>vous chantez avec moi ce soir." I think that makes the whole song lose
it's 
>meaning.

Sad!

>5. From the "I *Must* be getting old" department: I wasn't aware until
this 
>week what a "Bromance" was.

Well, what is it then?

>6. SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY:
>
>The projected sales volume of a video game cartridge is given by the 
>function s (p) = 3000/2p+a,  where s is the number of cartridges sold, in


You must mean s(p)=3000/(2p+a).

>thousands; p is the price per cartridge, in dollars; and a is a constant.
If 
>according to the projections, 100,000 cartridges are sold at $10 per 
>cartridge, how many cartridges will be sold at $20 per cartridge?
>
>     (A)  20,000
>     (B)  50,000
>     (C)  60,000
>     (D)  150,000
>     (E)  200,000

C - 60,000

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