document.write( "Question 1137012: A yellow ribbon is 56 cm long it is twice as long as a green ribbon a brown ribbon is four times as long as the green ribbon what is the length of the brown ribbon? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #754841 by ikleyn(52786) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "    A yellow ribbon is 56 cm long. It is twice as long as a green ribbon.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    What does it mean ?\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "I got your second comment on this my writing. Here it is:\r
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document.write( "1.  It was exactly what I tried to do in my second post: to lead you step by step through the solution, in a way YOU did every step on your own.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Where in this last my post did you see my attempt to belittle you ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "    I simply made the problem formulation shorter to facilitate your first step.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    The obvious answer to my question is \"the green ribbon length is 56/2 = 28 cm.\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "    It is what I expected to get from you.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    To get this answer, you do not need to know Math. You simply need to understand English and to have a bit of common sense.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    With English, you are OK, judging on your writing.\r\n" );
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document.write( "2.  >>> But your reaction to my post was absolutely inadequate. <<<\r\n" );
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document.write( "3.  To your question, what I am doing in this forum and in this site.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    a)  I am 3.5+ years with this forum.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        During this time, I solved THOUSANDS problems and answered THOUSANDS requests from students.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        Among these problems, thousands were routine;\r\n" );
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document.write( "              other thousands were of regular or advanced school level, but solved, explained and presented in such a way, that the school \r\n" );
document.write( "              students learned the solutions from me and understood relevant parts of Math for the first time in their life from my posts;\r\n" );
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document.write( "              and hundreds other problems and posts were unique of the Math circle level.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    b)  Except of that, I am about 8 years with the site www.algebra.com .\r\n" );
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document.write( "        During this time, I wrote about 850 lessons with solutions of typical and advanced problems.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        These lessons organized in 3 (three) textbooks in Algebra-I, Algebra-II and Geometry.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        The fourth set of Pre-Algebra lessons contains several tens lessons, but they still not organized as a textbook.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        Thousands of students from USA and from other parts of the word, who speak English, read my lessons.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        So, I make real contribution and real influence on Math education in the USA and worldwide.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        Did this my response satisfy your curiosity ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "        OK, I just completed this part.\r\n" );
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document.write( "4.  From your last sentence \"You have gotten answers wrong in the past.\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "    I make a conclusions/(a notice) for myself that\r\n" );
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document.write( "          you make a trace of my wrong answers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "           Do you ? It is interesting to me.\r\n" );
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document.write( "           Yes, during my service at this forum, I made mistakes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "           Probably, 10 of them.  May be, 9; may be 12. It is the \"order of magnitude\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "           Can you share your trace with me, PLEASE ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "           It is great ! - After my service at this forum, there is somebody who makes a trace of my errors !  Thank you very much !!\r\n" );
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document.write( "           So, you can not solve this simple problem, but are able to recognize and trace my mistakes ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "           There is something mysterious to me in it . . . \r\n" );
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document.write( "5.  If you are going to discuss these issues further with me - I am ready to do it in any mode.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    But if you decide to post me a phrase of the type  \"Sorry, I made a mistake, I didn't understand correctly your post\" - then\r\n" );
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document.write( "    I will accept it and will think that the incident is over.\r\n" );
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