Great News!

All right I have an interview at 2:45 PM on Thursday for a part time (roughly 18-20 hours per week on average) position as a substitute/extra staff member providing tutoring and other extracurricular enrichment activities at various schools in the Hollywood area. Found it from a flier at the NoHo library! This would be perfect for me so wish me luck!

Comments

[8bitmadness]

Sounds pretty good my dude. Seems like a good way to turn your personal weaknesses into strengths too.

[FanOfMostEverything]

Best of luck!

[Reese]

Good luck, indeed!

(Also, I (and my calculator; maybe kind of against the spirit of it, but I'm low on time at the moment (I've not double checked this, either)) get 6987.712429686841. :))

[Shrink Laureate]

Wow, that almost sounds like a real productive member of society. Good luck, I hope it sticks.

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Well that's just a trollish way of writing lots of fives. 0.2 is just \frac{1}{5} or 5^{-1}. The roots can be rewritten as powers as well: \sqrt{x} = x^{\frac{1}{2}}, \sqrt[3]{x} = x^{\frac{1}{3}} and so on. You just need to reduce a lot, and most of it coalesces or cancels out.

\frac{100 \times \sqrt[3]{0.2^{-3}} + \sqrt{\sqrt{5}} \times 25 \times 5^{0.75}}{\sqrt[4]{125} \times \sqrt{0.2^5} \div 5^{-0.25}}

= \frac{100 \times 5^{-1 \times \frac{3}{3}} + 5^{\frac{1}{4}} \times 5^2 \times 5^{\frac{3}{4}}}{5^{\frac{3}{4}} \times 5^{-1 \times \frac{5}{2}} \times 5^{-1 \times -\frac{1}{4}}}

= \frac{100 \times 5^{-1} + 5^3}{5^{\frac{3}{4} - 1 + \frac{1}{4}}}

= \frac{\frac{100}{5} + 5^3}{5^0}

= \frac{20 + 125}{1}

= 145

... I think?

[Super Trampoline]

5189893
5189909
Lol nerd sniped

[Magenta Cat]

5189909
Uh, dude, a little typo in your formula. you put the cubic root of 0.2 raised to 0.3, when in the image it's raised to -3.

I gave it a shot (6 years since I dropped out of engineering), and I got 3 multiplied by the square root of 5 raised to 9. I'm not even close to being sure if it's correct, to be honest.

[unfortunately yiff]

good luck!

[Shrink Laureate]

5189950
You're right.

[Shrink Laureate]

That's not my only mistake either.

[iisaw]

Good luck!

[Magenta Cat]

5189958
Huh, neat. As I said, years since I was even close to these kind of math *shudders*, so I just winged it,

[Shrink Laureate]

Here's another go. Probably still wrong.

\frac{100 \times \sqrt[3]{0.2^{-3}} + \sqrt{\sqrt{5}} \times 25 \times 5^{0.75}}{\sqrt[4]{125} \times \sqrt{0.2^5} \div 5^{-0.25}}

= \frac{100 \times 5^{-1 \times -\frac{3}{3}} + 5^{\frac{1}{4}} \times 5^2 \times 5^{\frac{3}{4}}}{5^{\frac{3}{4}} \times 5^{-1 \times \frac{5}{2}} \times 5^{-1 \times -\frac{1}{4}}}

= \frac{100 \times 5 + 5^3}{5^{\frac{3}{4} - \frac{5}{2} + \frac{1}{4}}}

= \frac{500 + 5^3}{5^{-\frac{6}{4}}}

= (500 + 125) \times 5^{\frac{3}{2}}

= 625 \times 11.1803398875

= 3633.61046344

[Lofty Withers]

Break a leg.

[Gyro Pony]

That's great man.
Engineer Applejack wishes you all the best

[Georg]

I was told there would be no math...

[8bitmadness]

5189997
I'm sorry but wtf, fimfiction supports latex formatting? WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?

[Reese]

5189948
Pretty sure that's on target, yeah. :D

5189950
'3 multiplied by (the square root of 5 raised to 9)' (3*(5^(9/2))), I assume you mean?
It doesn't match mine, but it is more or less exactly 60% of mine.
((3*(5^0.5))^9 is way out there, hence why I'm not assuming you meant that.)

5189997
That answer is more or less exactly 52% of mine, though.

So... the three of us seem to be at least onto something...

[Shrink Laureate]

5190045

I was told there would be no math...

There's always math. In all things at all times, there is math. And if you squint really hard, sometimes you can see it...

[Super Trampoline]

5190100
5190045
Obligatory

[Magenta Cat]

5190084
Yeah, the first one. Honestly, I'm using brain cells that filled for retirement years ago. Can I see your work? Just out of curiosity,, see if I can catch where I missteped.

[Biker_Dash]

I came up with 3,906,250
Guessing I should doublecheck my figures, since I see two other answers...

[Biker_Dash]

(100*3(root)0.2^-3+(root)(root)5*25*5^0.75)
/
(4(root)145*(root)0.2^5/5^-0.25)

Okay... starting with the top part...
100*(3(root)0.2^-3) = 100*3(root)125 = 100*5 = 500
500 + ((root)(root)5*25*5^0.75)
((root)(root)5)*(25)*(5^0.75) = 1.4953487812 * 25 * 3.3437015249 = 124.9999999989
500 + 124.9999999989 = 624.9999999989

Okay... we now have this:

624.9999999989
/
(4(root)145)*((root)0.2^5)/(5^-0.25)

bottom is as follows...
4(root)125 = 3.3437015249
(root)0.2^5 = (root)0.00032 = 0.0178885438
5^-0.25 = 0.668740305
3.3437015249 * 0.0178885438 / 0.668740305 = 0.089442719

Soooooo...
624.9999999989 / 0.089442719 = 6987.7124374864

yeah... forgot the square root of .00032 in my first calculation...
Correct answer (I think) is 6987.7124374864

[Loganberry]

Good luck!

[Reese]

5190107
Sorry; as I was in a hurry, I just typed the whole thing straight into the calculator software I was using, which didn't need it to be broken up into separate steps. I'd rather like to look back at what I did too.

5190112
Interesting! My answer was 6987.712429686841. And that difference looks like it could just be due to different rounding in intermediate steps. :)

[Magenta Cat]

5190451
Ran it through wolfram Thankfully I didn't forget the english notation. Got the same result. Now back to journalism and not caring about mathematical roots.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28100%28%280.2%5E%28-3%29%29%5E%281%2F3%29%29%2B%28%285%5E%281%2F2%29%29%5E%281%2F2%29%29*25*%285%5E%280.75%29%29%29%2F%28%28125%5E%281%2F4%29%29*%28%280.2%5E%285%29%29%5E%281%2F2%29%29%2F%285%5E%28-0.25%29%29%29

[theRedBrony]

Wish you luck!

[Reese]

5190468
Ah, excellent; thanks!
And good luck with the journalism!

[Magenta Cat]

5190601
Many thanks.