Spending Time | You do it every day. You barely give it a second thought. Yet, if you do it as you've been instructed, you will spend more than a day each year do it. What is it? | Hint
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Ratio and Proportion Machines | There are a few ratio and proportion machines in your home. What are they? | Hint
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Adding Car Lane | You
are stuck in rush-hour traffic. All the highway lanes are packed. What
if they add another lane, by how much will it reduce the traffic load on
each existing lane?
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Spending Time | You do it every day | Puzzle
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Ratio and Proportion Machines | You use it every day, many times. It is up to you whether it is a ratio machine or a proportion machine. Sometimes both. | Puzzle
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Adding Car Lane | Say
there are now three lanes, what if they added a fourth one?
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Spending Time | Brusing your teeth. | Puzzle
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Ratio
and Proportion Machines
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The hot and cold water faucets in kitchens and bathrooms... | Puzzle
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Adding Car Lane | By
one fourth of the current traffic load.
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Spending Time | If
you brush your teeth twice daily for two minutes each time, each year you
will spend
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Ratio and Proportion Machines | The
hot and cold water faucets in kitchens and bathrooms adjust the ratio of
hot and cold water in the mix and that comes out of the spout. Once you
like the temperature of the mix, adjusting the flow, you maintain the hot-to-cold
ratio. In other words, you preserve the proportion.
If you have a faucet with a single-lever control then in one direction it is a ratio machine and in the other it is a proportion machine. |
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Adding Car Lane | You
might think that since 1 more lane is a third of the existing
3 lanes, the traffic load is reduced by 1/3.
But you would be wrong.
Let's use T to mark the total traffic load (for example, 3,000 cars per hour.) With 3 lanes the laod at each lane is T/3 or 4/12 of T.So each of the 3 original lanes contributes 1/4 of its original load to the new lane.(In our example, each lane carries 1,000 cars per hour.)With 4 lanes the laod at each lane is T/4 or 3/12 of T. |
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