Monday, March 29, 2010

okay well today i tried my best in completing this report, due to these circumstances. Im proud of myself.!!
Wan can you please comment our report one more time..thank you!~
Today I got on google docs to continue editing my group's report and I noticed that Michelle was editng the report as well, I was very excited because it goes to show that someone at least cared about helping with the report.
Well today the math report is due. I hope my group's report is great because Michelle and I worked very hard. Michelle and I were very honest in this report and completing every aspect of the report. We tried our very best.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Today i finished editing everything, now im jus waiting for Wan to review the report and let me know if their is anything else to change. Hopefully their is nothing else to change and everything is fine. I tried my best and i hope the report is what was expected.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Well today when i came out of school i fixed all the charts and placed them on the report. Then i started editing, but im still not done. I still have to add in more information in the body, conclusion, and inquiry process. hopefully we'll be done by Monday and everything is ok because i have been working very hard, and so has Michelle and Tyre'

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Today i am very upset cuz Wan stood wit one table all day and barely helped anyone else.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Well me and michelle basically did all our group work. We was making sure everyone was on point. Unfortunately Ellen, and Tyre weren't in class today to finish what they were assign to do, so nowMichelle and I muyst take it upon ourselves to do their part. I think we will do well though so it dont matter anyway

Monday, March 22, 2010

So far my group and i are done with our report. We just need to revise and wait for Wan to comment on it.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

1.So far all my group members are on point. We already did both our Fed Ex Express (130 inches) and UPS (165 inches) graphs, as well as our tables. We have generalized and checked our volumes, girth, length, width and height using calculators.

The design I used for FedEx Express was the width and the height are the same. This would make the box a square face, which means the formula i used to find the girth was x+x+x+x or 4x. Since i knew that X, the width and the height would be the same all i had to do was find my length. The way i found my length was by subtracting the total by the girth, in this case it would be (130-4x). Now i had to find the volume. The way i found the volume was by multiplying the length, width,and height. I generalization for the volume was (130-4x)x*x.

The design i used for UPS was the width is always 10 inches longer than the height. This design would make the box a rectangular face, which means that the formula i used to find the girth was w+h+w+h or 4x. In this problem my width and height werent the same anymore, but my height and x would always be the same. So in order to find the width i had to add 10 to the height becuase my design said that the width is always 10 inches longer than the height(x+10). now i had to find my length so i did the same thing i did with the FedEx Express box, i subtracted the total from the girth (165-4x). the next thing i had to was find the volume. I found the volume by multiplying the width, length , and height. My generalization for the volume was (x+10)(x)(165-4x) .

My group memebers and i checked all our calculations inoreder to see what our scale on the graph would be. It was very hard at first becuase we werent sure how to scale it, but then it worked out. When we were done i checked my tables first to do the finite differences so that i can see whether my calculations were correct, and to see if when i graphed my points it would be a 3rd degree polynomial. Then i felt i was ready to start graphing. For my FedEx Express graph my y- axis scale was 3,000's and my x -axis scale was 1's. My y-axis was labeled volume and my x-axis was labeled just plane ol (x). As my graph was completed i plugged in my function in the calculator, put in my scale and pressed graph to see whether my graph matched the one on the calculator and it did. Then i pressed 2nd graph on the calculator to see if my maximum point was correct and it was. I didnt use the trace thing on the calculator to find the maximum volume becuase i find that to be very confusing, instead i looked at my table and my graph.

My maximum volume for FedEx Express was 20,328 (22,20328) and for UPS it was 40,227 (23,40227).

The way i organzied was by creating a table. My first two tables had the total, (x), length, width, height, volume , and girth. It also had all my functions for each column. Then i made two T -charts with only x and the volume. I used this chart to check the finite difference. Unfortunately everyone in my group had to create their own tables becuase we all had different designs and the shipping was different as well.

3. When my group members and i were done with all our calculations and graphing we looked at our maximum volume for FedEx Express and UPS. Michelle's and my maximum volume for FedEx Express was 20,328. Tyre's maximum volume was 20,342 and it was the highest. I think his was different because he had a different design from the both of us. Like his design was for FedEx Express was the width is always 6 inches longer than height and mines was the width and the height are the same. For UPS we all had different maximum volumes. My maximum volume was the highest. The reason for this was because we all had different designs for our boxes too. Like my UPS design was the width is always 10 inches longer than the height. Meaning like if my height was 1 then my width would be 11 because i added 10 to 1 (x+10). Since my design was the width is always 10 inches longer than the height, that means the width is longer than the rest of my group members and its more flat.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Today my group and i learned that X and H are always going to be the same nobody whether it is a square face or rectangular face. One of my group memebers also learned that inorder to find the length you must subtract the total from the girth.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Wyclef Jean a celebrity activist who has founded his own foundation named Yele for his country, Haiti. Wyclef Jean has one the NAACP award and says its for his people in Haiti. He was an ex-member of The Fugees, now a solo artist. He also is a songwriter and producer. Wyclef Jean came from a hut, to the projects to a mansion so he feels that anybody can make it theirs no excuses.
"fought for recognition of my country"- Wyclef Jean