document.write( "Question 1065069: Edmund Halley, after whom Halley's comet was named, predicted that the comet would appear in 1758. The comet appears approximately every 76 years.
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document.write( "(a) Use a table to show the years of the next six sightings after 1758.   \r\n" );
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document.write( "(b) When will Halley's comet appear in your lifetime?\r\n" );
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document.write( "(c) Write an equation that can be used to predict the years when Hailey's comet will appear.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(d) When will we see Halley's comet again\r\n" );
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document.write( "(a)  Do you want I make this table instead of you ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "     I don't want to do it and even not going to do it.\r\n" );
document.write( "     YOU do it by adding 76 to 1758 one time, two times, three times and so on.\r\n" );
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document.write( "     I hope you are able to add numbers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(b)  Continue until you get a year in your lifetime.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(c)  The equation is  Year(n) = 1758 +(n-1)*76,\r\n" );
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document.write( "     where Year(n) is the year of n-th appearance of the comet counting first at 1758.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(d)  Almost the same as (B). Use the formula (c).\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "On Halley comet read this Wikipedia article:\r
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