Jessica Ramer's Resume and Writing Portfolio

  Billy Sunday as a Source for Passages in Carl Sandburg's "The Four Brothers"                                                                                                                                        Billy Sunday as a Source for Passages in Carl Sandburg's "The Four Brothers"       ...

  Word Problems using the Point-Slope and Slope-Intercept Equations of a Line   In this section, you will learn how to:   Determine what word problems can be solved using a linear equation Use the information in the problem to create a linear equation to describe the situation   When you are given word problems in which something happens at a constant rate—growing at the same rate, something being used at the same rate—and you have data that could be arranged in ordered pairs—see if you can solve the problem by creating a linear equation.   Example 1:     Charlie and his family are living through another Florida hurricane.  Their electricity has been off for 3 straight days.  When Charlie lights a candle, it is 6 inches high.  After 2 hours, it is 4 inches high.  If the candle burns at a constant rate, how tall will be after burning for 3 hours?   We can solve this problem by c...

 Arithmetic Means, Weighted Averages, Medians, and Modes In this section, you will learn how to: • Calculate arithmetic means • Find the value of an unknown score when given all the other scores and an average • Calculate medians • Calculate modes There are three types of averages: arithmetic means, medians, and modes.  When you find your semester grade by adding all of your scores together and dividing by the number of scores, you are finding an arithmetic mean.  Suppose that you earned the following grades during a semester:  86, 98, 92, 79, and 97.  To find your final grade, you add all the scores together and divide by 5, which is the number of scores.  Suppose, however, you want to earn at least a 90% for the semester and your first four test grades are 91, 87, 88, and 94.  What must you score on the fifth test to earn an average of 90% for the entire semester? Most SAT problems require knowing how to solve the second type of problem....