Tuesday, June 4, 2013
What is N?
I think that with the problem given today I might have an equation that could help decide each fraction 1/4n*1/4=y. what I have a question about is the what the variable n is = to when u use one the equation works out! yet when I use 2 it doesn't so using some thinking I changed it to 1/2 which worked !! .... But sadly when I changed it to 1/4 it didnt work out ! so that part has me stuck where should I go because n needs to go up or down in a constant rate so that the numbers equal the fractions I came up with in class!!
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I'd caution you to not necessarily rely on some "super equation" so solve the problem. You might be surprised to know that most math problems are solved with simple counting! It seems that you are caught up with trying to quantify the different sized squares...have you thought of grouping the squares into like-sized trios and evaluating the shaded/unshaded ratio of each trio?
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