23 Moonie does her Homework
You walk around the house, contemplating life here and Earth as you munch on a carrot. Usually you'd exercise with Dash but with
your PT off on some Wonderbolt tour, you've taken the opportunity to be lazy. Like every other time you're not hanging with Dash.
"You've failed me for the last time Sir Bearington. AGAIN," Moonie shrieks in frustration from the lounge room.
With nothing better to do, you go check out what's up.
"What are you doing?"
"Homework but Sir Bearington is useless at math."
"Need a hand?"
"Very well. You may assist your queen."
She tries her best to put on a guise but you doubt she could make it more obvious that she's in desperate need for help. You take a seat on the empty floor beside her and look over her paper, just simple math problems from the looks of it.
"Which one are you stuck on?"
She points to the second question. You'd ask how long she's spent on her homework but you asked her to get it done a long while ago so you'd feel bad if the answer was the whole time.
"Using only exponents, make seven an even number," you mutter, reading the question aloud.
"What is an exponent ag-"
"Just remove the s."
She stares at the paper, confused and whispering so quietly that you can't hear it as she tries to piece together what you said until it hits her. Then she looks up at you with a hateful glare.
"Get out. I don't want your help any more."
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Oh... and it's impossible to really solve that problem... I'm just gonna assume that it was a joke from the start.
:)
Impossible question is actually a riddle. lol
It's genius! Genius I tell you!
loved reading it
What the Hell does it mean
exponent equations at her (physical) age? Dang, Equestria expects alot of its younglings!
6448579 Way behind on chapters here.
He was joking with her. Take the word 'seven'—removing the letter 's' leaves the word 'even'.
In terms of a real answer... I'm as lost as Moonie. If ONLY exponents can be used, no parentheses allowed, I think it's a trick question. But eh, I was never perfect at math.
6448579
These guys are correct, 5049403 5050470 7015724
Because any odd number that is given an exponent will come out as an odd number. It's impossible to make it even.
7016543 I just realized something... 7^18 actually gives a calculator result of 1.62841360E+15 or 1.62841360Ex10^15. While this is just an estimate, it gives you an extended version of 1,628,413,600,000,000 which is an even number.
7 by the power of 0.7124143742155 equals 4... What are they teaching in primary school in equestria!?!
Can all ponies solve that by hand (hoof)!?
I belive I found a star wars reference.
Son of a... ugh... I hate this kind of math.
Thankfully I never did it so I don't have to :D
Nice work.
Wasn't there a trick to it, like 7^0? That would be 0, right, and 0...I don't remember if people consider 0 an even number now, damn...
7018426
It's not. Those zeroes aren't zeroes. The calculator only has so many digits, so rounds the last one. There is no integer (whole number) you can raise an odd number by to get an even number.
That specific topic was probably covered in the lecture and the teacher was seeing if the students were paying attention.
Unless she's an honours strident and the teacher expects them to figure that part out themselves.
Out of boredom, here's one possible solution.
7^(log(8)/log(7)) = 8
Technically, you can describe the log() funnctions as shorthand, rather than operations.
7897849
7^0=1 anything^0=1
9026229
Yeah, you're right. I guess I forgot zero is a number when I wrote this but now the entire joke is ruined. Thank you.