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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Compound Interest Rule of 70
This page gives a brief explanation on how to compute compound interest.
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The Math Forum: Credit Card Calculations
At this site Dr. Math answers a question about credit card balance payoffs. An advanced algebraic solution is offered.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Stellated Dodecahedron
This question and answer site provides information about stellated dodecahedrons, as well as several internet links to this topic.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Volume of a Rectangular Solid
This question and answer site covers lateral area, total area, and volume of a rectangular solid.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Volume of a Cone
This question and answer site poses a problem dealing with the volume of a partly filled cone.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Area, Volume of a Cone
This question and answer site gives the formulas for area and volume of a cone.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Apothem of a Hexagon
This Q & A forum has a question answered on how to find the apothem of a hexagon.
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The Math Forum: Drexel University Math Forum: Imaginary Numbers
Contains a short summary on imaginary numbers and several links to its related fields. Also provides several examples and explanations for understanding.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: De Moivre's Theorem Proof
This Math Forum site contains a brief proof of De Moivre's Theorem ((cos(x)+isin(x))^n = cos(nx) + isin(nx)) Where n is an integer.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Congruence and Triangles
This site gives a very thorough explanation of how to tell if two triangles are congruent. Dr. Math explains why SSS, SAS, ASA determine that two triangles are congruent. The Dr. gives a few exercises for the reader to try then gives the...
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Determining if a Function Is Even or Odd
Dr. Math responds to a question about determining whether a function is even or odd. The Dr. explains the process and then does one example.
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The Math Forum: K 12 Math Puzzles
This site from the Math Forum of Drexel University provides a selection of math puzzles for grades K through 12 are found here. Types include: taking the numbers in the year 2004 and arriving at the numbers 1 through 100, using four 4s...
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The Math Forum: The Cereal Box Problem
A cereal company is offering six different prizes in their boxes. How many boxes would you expect to have to purchase in order to collect all six prizes? Known as the Cereal Box Problem, this question is explored here. A solution is...
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The Math Forum: Lattice Multiplication
Great web site that offers a detailed summary of how to multiply using the lattice multiplication method.
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The Math Forum: Surface Area of a Sphere
This site from Dr. Math at the Math Forum provides a concrete way to prove to students the formula for the surface area of a sphere.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Credit Card Debt
This Ask Dr. Math site contains a question about how long it will take to repay a credit card debt at a particular APR and particular amount per month.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Pi and the Area of Circles
Contains a question pertaining to finding the area of a circle.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Plane Figure
This site provides a definition for plane figure (at the top of the page) and a few examples.
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The Math Forum: Restrictions on Roots
A question is asked if there are any restrictions on "n" when talking about the nth root of a number.
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The Math Forum: Number Tricks
This site from the Drexel University gives a few number tricks and asks for you to make a number trick of your own, it really is not difficult, yet to the non-math oriented seems like magic.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Cramer's Rule in Action
This site provides a specific example of Cramer's Rule. The site does not explain why Cramer's Rule works, yet does a fair job of expressing the method to reach the answers.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Volume of a Triangular Tank
This question and answer site solves a volume problem for a triangular tank.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Is a Sphere 2 D or 3 D?
Do you think you know weather a sphere is two dimensional or three dimensional? Read this question posed to Doctor Math, very interesting.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Sphere Eversion
This question and answer site provides links to sites that show how to mathematically turn a sphere inside out.