Real life example of unit circle: when you have a fever of 104 degrees and you go to the emergency room and there's a picture of one in your room.

Expected Value Blog Thingy

Supposedly, we use expected value every day in our decision making. It impacts my life because I use it to filter what I say to my mother. When some th ing happens at school, I carefully weigh my options. The circumstance. I weigh pros and cons, all that jazzy-ness. So, yeah.

Comparison between Thingys

We talked in class about how the pythagorean theorem and equation of a circle were the same thing, right? The equation of a circle I think, is essentially of the same form as the distance formula. And the distance formula is the same as the pythagorean theorem, correct? They're all related, if not the same thing, extremely similar. All of the above share the same concept, if I'm right. But really, what do I know?

Circle Thing

Here is a picture of a real life example of a circle: a clock. Why didn't the first one publish??

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uniform_polyhedron-53-t12.png

Okay...shot at extra credit...?

One thing I wish I had done better to prepare for the test?
Study. I studied a bit, and assumed I knew the rest without practice. The stuff I was confused about I tried my best but it didn't work out too great for me, I don't think. Not to mention, thanks to the test anxiety, I forgot all of the formulas I had memorized. I read somewhere we like to blame external forces for our failure to protect our ego. Look at me blaming anxiety. Assuming things will be easier to handle is what I'm good for, ultimately failing is the other thing I'm good for. Next test I will try not to overestimate my abilities and study all of the materiel, cal down and get my stuff together.

What I'm going to do for the next test?
Calm down, study everything and ask for help in the areas I need? Write, re-write and re-write everything I'll need to remember? Good Lord, I hate tests.

Okay, so this is really untimely, for stupid reasons. I did not save nor publish my previous work, so I'm re-typing it all. Count it late or don't, I don't know and then it was supposed to be done before class today but there were no computers open in the library before school. The frustration. I'm done ranting, so here is my actual project.
The scale factor I decided on, was 2/3. Why is that the scale factor? Because the estimates for my room size was 10x8. I,of course, being the lunkhead that I am, made the measurements on my drawing larger than my room, eve though my room was supposed to be large and the print was supposed to be smaller, correct? See, now I'm second guessing myself and I have no clue if I got it right. Whatever. The width (on paper) is 30 (feet, I'm assuming) by 24 (feet(?)) How do I know if this is a dilation? I think the dictionary definition of a dilation is either an enlargement or a reduction of an original image, and that's what I have created on paper, a sort of accurate enlargement/reduction. So, yeah. There it is, and if it's right, I feel like I deserve half of a cookie.