Quoting Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>:
The radius of the earth's orbit is 150,000,000,000 meters. What is this number in scientific notation? ..... [The last time I looked, the Earth's orbit was ~ elliptical, so it has a semimajor & semiminor axis...]
You looked at an illustration in a California Text Book, where they have to exhibit a plausible "ellipse." If it were drawn to scale, only an astronomer or a draftsman could tell the difference.
Heather flipped a coin five times, and each time it came up heads. If Heather flips the coin one more time, what is the theoretical probability that it will come up tails?
A 1/6 B 1/2 C 3/5 D 5/6
E 0 (= none of the above) By Bayes' theorem, she has a faulty coin. What kind of random number generator do they use to come up with nice politically correct children's names? - hvm ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos