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pipemakermike · Jun 14, 2005 05:42 AM

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Teaching Maths in 1950:

It costs a logger $80 to fell a log and transport it to his sales centre. He makes 20% profit on each log. If he sells 100 logs, what is his total revenue and his total profit ?

Teaching Maths in 1960:

It costs a logger $80 to fell a log and transport it to his sales centre. He makes 20% profit on each log, i.e. $16. If he sells 100 logs, what is his total revenue and his total profit ?

Teaching Maths in 1970:

A logger fells 100 logs and sells some of them to be made into paper. Draw a Venn diagram showing E, the set of all trees, L, the set of all felled trees, and P, the set of all trees made into paper.

Teaching Maths in 1980:

It costs a logger $80 to fell a log and transport it to his sales centre. He makes 20% profit on each log, i.e. $16. Your assignment: underline the number 16.

Teaching Maths in 1990:

A logger makes a living by felling logs and then selling them for a profit. What do you feel about this way of making a living ? For extra marks, how do you think the birds and insects that live in the trees feel about it when their tree is turned into a log ?

Teaching Maths in 2000:

It costs a logger $80 to fell a log and transport it to his sales centre. He sells each log for $75. How does Arthur Andersen show that his profit margin is $60 ?

Regards

Mike

Ty Marcucci · Nov 13, 2003 04:09 PM

RE: Word Origins..#1 source
The whole nine yards comes from the length of the machine gun rounds for the M2 .50 cal guns in the wings of fighters in WW2. The belts were 27 feet long or 9 yards. Thus when a pilot said," I gave him the whole nine yards", he meant the entire load of ammo.

gtrbaby · Nov 13, 2003 04:19 PM

RE: Word Origins..#4 source
It has SOMETHING to do with travelling on a ship...so pretty close.
nothing to do with P&O tho...

Old Sourdough · Nov 13, 2003 06:11 PM

RE: Word Origins..#10 source
While not really a problem, I think I'll leave these two to others.

elmores · Nov 14, 2003 04:25 PM

RE: Word Origins..#18 source
I thought it was something to do with the devil (old nick, beelzebub, satan) being able to take over your body when you sneezed?