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- You have until the due date and time (central time) to submit answers to the current challenge.
- One answer per partnership may be submitted.
- At least one correct answer by the due date is necessary for the entire group to receive the challenge's clue.
- You may interact with the enviornment in any way you like. You may also speak to as many people in the environment as you want. Chat, ask them questions, etc. Once you post your end of the conversation, I'll submit their responses to you.
- If a partnership is eliminated, any answer they submit will not be considered.
Good luck.
submitted by Ruby M.
(June 2, 2016 - 11:14 pm)
(June 2, 2016 - 11:14 pm)
Man, the world really doesn't want me to do this.
And yeah, I had figured it was similar to that, so I'd have to convert the answers to a hex number, but the actual math is stumping me. Plus it looks like Air already did all that and got a color, so...
I guess I may as well go look at the sign.
(June 10, 2016 - 6:30 am)
"Where is this sign?" you ask. You don't know where the "edge of town" is.
The red-haired woman says cheerfully, "I can show you. You're new in town, right? So I'll show you around."
She spreads her arms out wide and announces grandly, "Our tour begins here, in the best bakery in all of the town." She winks at the two of you, then ushers you out the door.
She points towards the fountain. "This is the fountain. It was built 30 years ago, but it's in great repair still. People throw pennies in their and make a wish and sometimes the wishes come true. We're awfully proud of our fountain."
She waves at Connor and Delia as she crosses the street with you both following. "How are you doing?" she calls.
Delia pokes her brother and whispers something to him. They both wave madly. "Hi, Bernie!" Connor calls.
"Your name is Bernie?" you ask as you begin to walk past Samsa Park.
"My parents named me Bernadette, but that's a terrible name, isn't it?" she explains cheerfully. "So everyone calls me Bernie or Dette. You two have pretty unusual names yourselves. How did you end up with those?"
You shrug non-commitedly. You walk on past the park on one side and shops on the other until you reach a residential area. The homes begin to spread out from one another until you pass the last home (complete with a pasture laden with goats) and the road ends. It quite literally ends. The sky hits the road and that's the end. You reach a hand out and feel something almost like a wall. It's hard and you can't pass through it, but it looks like the sky. You seem to be under an enormous dome of some kind.
"Hey, Bernie-" you begin to say, but she's pointing out a sign to balletandbow on the side of the road opposite from the goat pasture. The sign is about five feet tall and says in neat black lettering:
HERE LIES THE
END OF THE WORLD
TREAD WITH CAUTION
"Bernie," you ask, "what is this place?"
"It's the end of the town," she says.
"What's beyond this?" you ask.
Her face once again wrinkles up with confusion. "What do you mean?"
(June 10, 2016 - 1:32 pm)
I AM LAUGHING SO HARD I AM SOOOO SORRY.
Anyhow, I googled trig, and sin is short for sine (they're too lazy they just canmt put that last letter?) and cos for cosine, and tan for tangent.
Sine is the ratio of the lengths of the shortest side and the longest side of a triangle. The short side measurement is on the top of the ratio.
Cosine is the ratio of the lengths of the second longest side with the longest side.
Tangent is the ratio of the lengths of the shortest side with the second shortest side.
I'm still googling some more about trig, for the third equation.
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As for the others, you should probably figure out x first. You solve it by figuring out the shortest equation first.
7y - x = -8
Yes, this is also a Y in there. You actually won't be boiling this one down to just one number. After you put the 7y on the other side its change the symbol to -, you use the - sign in front of the x to turn all the other numbers positive.
x = 8 + 7y
And here, you just leave it that way.
Go to the equation above and replace the x in it with the other equation in paranthesis (because x equals that)
2(8+7y) + 13y = 16
Then just multiply the number next to the parenthesis with each number inside. (hint, 7y becomes 14y)
I don't really wanna give all the answers . . . .
(June 9, 2016 - 10:07 am)
Btw I got the same answers as Regina when I did it. At first the equations didn't make much sense so I was gonna check it again BUT HOTELS DO NOT MAKE THEIR NOTEPADS BIG ENOUGH >:T
x=8 y=0
y=2 x=7
I'm also wondering why two equations for x and y were needed...
(June 9, 2016 - 10:28 am)
Ooh, yay, it's math! I'm three years ahead of most students in math and I love it! Okay, here goes the third problem!
In this case, Novelist, it looks like sin cos and tan aren't referring to traingles, per se, but are referring to circles. Yeah, I know. It's weird.
According to the second equation, y has to be 1, 5, or 9. So, x is going to have to be 4 or 8.
So we've got all the xs and ys. What do we do now?
(June 9, 2016 - 11:23 am)
I'm sorry, but I can't do the challanges anymore. Not that I ever really was, I know I haven't been very helpful and I really didn't do much of anything. I'm going to be gone a lot this summer, and I really don't see how I'd be able to help you with this awesome project. I hope you can forgive me and I wish you the best of luck on the challenges.
~Bibliophile
(June 9, 2016 - 12:43 pm)
@St.Owl:
For the trig stuff, x=0 and y=1.
I'll solve the algebra stuff this weekend.
(June 9, 2016 - 6:56 pm)
Oh, Ruby, will there be any coding?
(June 9, 2016 - 7:39 pm)
Yes. I don't know how much you know, so it was written to be an easy-ish challenge. You may have to do some research because I don't know what languages you use.
(June 9, 2016 - 10:18 pm)
Ooh, yay! I know... a little bit... of coding.
(June 10, 2016 - 3:55 pm)
Mirax, I'm really sorry, I can't work on this right now. Good luck!
(June 9, 2016 - 8:53 pm)
Cho, I *think* I've got this figured out. I need to check the math again, but my theory is that you need the 3 pairs of x and y to find a hex code for a color (HTML). With numbers gleaned from other answers, here's what I've got.
#807201
(June 9, 2016 - 10:29 pm)
O-kay. That sounds good. Unfortunetely, I'm not quite there to that level of math. :(
It's my next book (I think), too! But what you're saying makes sense to me.
(June 10, 2016 - 11:17 am)
I'm back! Sorry for being gone, Abi! I'll wait until the next challenge to post, owo.
(June 10, 2016 - 12:23 am)
Ok, so by using calculations posted by Novelist and Air's theory about the hex color code thingies, I have come up with this answer. (The pic has both the hex code and the RGB values on it) HAB, you can approve or disapprove, but we have to get an answer in by midnight tonight.
(June 10, 2016 - 7:33 am)