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  • #1077873
    intellegent
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    Joseph,

    Just the coefficients?

    is that 1?

    -6^744 x 6^745

    #1077874
    GivPerf
    Member

    The only president who ruled for 2 non-consecutive terms is (I believe) Grover Cleveland.

    #1077875
    intellegent
    Member

    ( [3x – 3x^2 +1]^744 ) x ( [- 3x + 3x^2 +1]^745 ) ?

    Actually I’m not sure what you mean by the sum of the coefficient (btw, wouldn’t that be product?)

    ((3 – 9)^744)((-3 + 9)^745)

    (-6)^744

    x 6^745

    _______

    1

    or do you mean

    ( [3x – 3x^2 +1]^744 ) x ( [- 3x + 3x^2 +1]^745 ) ?

    ((3x – 9x +1)^744)((-3x + 9x +1)^745)

    ((-6x +1)^744)((6x+1)^745)

    Well actually I guess I get one in any case. or is that 2? I really don’t remember.

    or is it 6x+1?

    #1077876

    wow, intellegent, what do you do for fun besides algebra? lol

    #1077877
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    brooklyn19:December 17, 1862-Gen U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee

    good one

    #1077878
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    you totally googled that one! yeah Grant sent a letter to Lincoln, but Lincoln revoked it. it recently came up when obama won. trying to get him to stand up for us by showing him that we were in the same boat at the same time.

    #1077879
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    random did ya knows!!

    -a rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon!

    -the speed limit in nyc was 8 mph in 1895!

    -hawaii is the only us state never to report a temperature of zero degrres f or below

    -a single coffee tree produces only a pound of coffee per year

    -americans spend $630 million a year on golf balls

    -texas is the only state that allows residents to cast absentee ballots from space

    -frogs never drink

    -at birth a dalmation dog is always pure white

    -manhattan is the only boro in nyc that doesnt have a maim st.

    -in 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names!

    -the capital buildin in d.c. has 365 steps to represent the days in the year

    -the city of los angeles has 3x more cars then people!

    go figure!!!

    #1077880
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    who were the midnight justices?? & in who’s presidency did it happen in??

    #1077881
    Joseph
    Participant

    asdfghj – Manhatan DOES have a main St.

    Btw, shouldn’t you be doing IRISH trivia?

    #1077882
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    don’t remember who. i think it was early on. was that when the president hired judges overnight to make the supreme court even or something? i could be totally off.

    #1077883
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    joseph, save you drunk comments for the smoking/drinking thread

    #1077884
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    by maydel & sir joseph:

    The current President of ireland is Mary McAleese!! She acts on the advice and authority of the Government but performs a limited number of functions after consultation with an advisory Council of State. She receives and accredits Ambassadors. Every law made by Parliament is promulgated by her. Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament require her signature for their enactment into law. She may, before signing a Bill, seek a Supreme Court ruling on whether it is repugnant to the Constitution !!!

    i didn’t always live in ireland just to let you know!!

    #1077885
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    brooklyn19: your getting closer!!!

    #1077886
    oomis
    Participant

    “manhattan is the only boro in nyc that doesnt have a maim st.”

    Oh I think lots of people have gotten maimed on the streets of Manhattan!

    #1077887
    Joseph
    Participant

    There is a Main Street on Roosevelt Island, which is technically part of Manhattan.

    #1077888

    asdfghjkl-

    FDR at one point tried to pack the supreme court with judges who were in idealogical agreement with him by adding one judge for every existing judge over a certain age. His attempt failed. Is this what you’re talking about?

    #1077889
    Bais Yaakov maydel
    Participant

    a. Manhattan has 2 Ts.

    b. im pretty sure the midnight appointment was made by John Madison, and he appointed some big judge i forget who (not Marshall)

    #1077890

    There was also the “midnight massacare” when Nixon got Robert Bork to fire Archibald Cox.

    #1077891
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    i can only try: try again!!!

    #1077892
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    nah it was way before that. i’m guessing adams or jefferson cuz it was something to do with john marshall. i think he was involved too. should i google it? it’s killing me!

    ouch. i did gorgeously on my history regents. and in college too. what has happened??

    #1077893

    asdfghjkl-

    Didn’t know it. Googled it. Now know it.

    #1077894
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    btw – totally off topic – but are “googled” and “googling” words? any english majors here?

    #1077895

    brooklyn19-

    Recently (within the last couple of years) saw in the news that they had been “officially” added. So was “irregardless”.

    #1077896
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    really? “irregardless” is completely and totally redundantly redundant!

    #1077897

    brooklyn19-

    Instead of considering it product of the Department of Redundancy Department, just think of it as a free gift to the English language.

    #1077898
    Joseph
    Participant

    brooklyn19: Merriam-Webster, and I believe Oxford, added “google” as a recognized English word a couple of years ago.

    #1077899
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    a free complimentary word? ok fine we’ll take it. even though it’s a stupid word.

    🙂 thanks

    #1077900
    oomis
    Participant

    completely and totally redundantly redundant!

    So are “completely” and “totally.”

    #1077901

    what about texted and texting-r they words?

    #1077902
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    more history questions to get our brains thinking!!

    1)which president dies after 5 weeks in office??

    2)who were women of the american reform movement??(not of the ”jewish” reformers!!

    3)how many presidents were asassinated? & list them + assasinaters

    4)what year did roosevelet get a 3rd term in?

    5)how many amendments are in the bill of rights? & can anyone list them all??(lol in order)

    p.s. i got a 98% on my american history regent!!!!

    #1077903
    Bais Yaakov maydel
    Participant

    bkyln19, apparently it’s being used more and more often, so be careful of which words you call “stupid” because the user of that word might be of a sensitive nature and get offended, because you would be implying that the user of that word is also stupid.

    in general, i dont like the word stupid, it’s just a polite (if you can call it that) way of saying worse things. like a euphemism i guess

    #1077904
    Joseph
    Participant

    asdfghjkl – how’d such an American history buff like you end up getting stuck in Ireland of all places?

    #1077905

    1)which president dies after 5 weeks in office? Harrison

    2)who were women of the american reform movement? Susan B. Athony, many others

    3)how many presidents were asassinated? Lincoln – Booth, Garfield – Guiteau, McKinley – Czogolcz, Kennedy – Oswald

    4)what year did roosevelet get a 3rd term in? 1940 (started serving it in 1941)

    5)how many amendments are in the bill of rights? the first 10 & can anyone list them all??(lol in order) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

    #1077906
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    oomis: reread the last few posts on the thread

    BYM: as usual, you’re right. i guess i gotta work on my middos/word usage

    1) william Henry Harrison – the idiot didn’t wear a coat to inorgeration and it was raining. he came down with pnuemonia.

    2) you mean women suffrage? Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and another lady – Mottt

    3) lincoln – john wilks booth(e?)

    garfield – ??

    mckinley – ??

    kennedy – oswald

    4) i’m a horrer with dates!

    5) 33? 34? and no i can’t list them all! can you???

    ps: so did i!

    #1077907
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    abcdefghijk1234567… whatever your name is: what’s up with all the irish jokes? you really live there or did a miss an old joke?

    #1077908
    intellegent
    Member

    asdfghjkl,

    I don’t think you’re really from Ireland.

    brooklyn19,

    Are you sure you’re from Brooklyn? You did gorgeously on your history regents?

    And btw, forget history, I think you are ready to be awarded the “most posts on ywn award”!

    #1077909
    intellegent
    Member

    Bais Yaakov maydel,

    Give me a break!

    Joseph,

    What’s up!? What’s the answer. I can’t take the suspense any longer!

    I’m breathless!

    #1077910
    Joseph
    Participant

    intelligent – copy that equation to the riddle thread. (I’m away from a computer now, and don’t want to leave you breathless too long… 🙂

    #1077911
    intellegent
    Member

    Joseph,

    How did you post that if you are away from your computer?

    And are you closer to the riddle thread? 😐

    I never really go to the riddle thread. should I start now? Does that makes sense? I don’t like doing things that don’t make sense. :-

    #1077912
    squeak
    Participant

    Apparently, you do things that you don’t like though.

    #1077913
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    oh my bad i thought question #5 was: how many amendments were there sach hakol!

    and i love the word gorgeous. i don’t even remember using it, but what’s wrong with it?

    #1077914
    squeak
    Participant

    Me too, especially from a brooklyn mouth – gaaaawjzis.

    #1077915
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    lol where are you from? (out-of-town, i presume!) hawaii? arizona? kentucky? lol

    #1077916
    intellegent
    Member

    squeak

    Most brooklyners under the age of 55 don’t say gaaaawjzis. At least the ones I know.

    #1077917
    squeak
    Participant

    Your ears are not trained to pick up an accent identical to your own, that is all.

    #1077918
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    gaw-jis

    i think that’s how i say it!

    #1077919
    Joseph
    Participant

    What is the sum of the coefficients of

    ( [3x – 3x^2 +1]^744 ) x ( [- 3x + 3x^2 +1]^745 ) ?

    intellegent, some tips…

    There is a rule of exponents;

    (a^b) * (a^c) = a^(b+c).

    So, since the stuff inside the parenthesis is the same (3x – 3x^2 + 1), this expression can be rewritten as:

    (3x – 3x^2 + 1)^(744+745) = (3x – 3x^2 + 1)^1489.

    The coefficients are 3 [from the 3x] and -3 [from the -3x^2], and 1 is a constant.

    #1077920
    Bais Yaakov maydel
    Participant

    intellegent, i assumed from your post that i offended you in some way but my last post was not directed towards you. is there something you found offensive in it, or are you just lacking in verbal sensitivity?

    #1077921
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    ladies & gentleman:

    i do indeed currently live in ireland!!! i was born in nyc & grew up in brooklyn, work took me to ireland in the last few years!!! my salary is now in the six figures!!!(just to make ya all envious!!!)

    nice work you all with the history answers!!!!

    #1077922
    Joseph
    Participant

    asdfghjkl

    nice speech

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