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This assignment is due in class on Tuesday November 6. Here and everywhere, '''neatness counts!!''' You may be brilliant and you may mean just the right things, but if the teaching assistants will be having hard time deciphering your work they will give up and assume it is wrong.
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'''Task 1.''' Read/reread sections 1.6, 1.7, and 2.1 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read. Remember that your prof. thinks that section 1.7 is useless fun. Also, '''preread''' the rest of chapter 2, just to get a feel for the future.
This assignment is due at the tutorials on Thursday November 1. Here and everywhere, '''neatness counts!!''' You may be brilliant and you may mean just the right things, but if the teaching assistants will be having hard time deciphering your work they will give up and assume it is wrong.


'''Task 2.''' Solve problems <u>17</u>, 18, 20, 23, 25, <u>26</u>, <u>28</u>, <u>29a</u>, and 29b on pages 56-57 and problems 1, 2, <u>5</u>, 13, <u>17</u> and 18 on pages 74-76, but submit only your solutions of the underlined problems.
'''Task 1.''' Read sections 1.5 through 1.7 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read.


'''Just for fun.''' Decide if the vectors <math>\begin{pmatrix}8\\-3\end{pmatrix}</math> and <math>\begin{pmatrix}5\\-2\end{pmatrix}</math> are linearly dependent.
'''Task 2.''' Solve problems 3, 8, 9, 10, and 11 on pages 41-42, but submit only your solutions of problems 8, 9, and 11.


<center>'''How Can This Be?'''</center>
'''Task 3.''' Solve problems 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, and 16 on page 53-56, but submit only your solutions of problems 4, 5, 9, and 12.
[[Image:How Can This Be.png|thumb|350px|center|Two congruent triangles are assembled using congruent pieces, yet one is bigger than the other]]

Latest revision as of 07:21, 30 October 2012

This assignment is due in class on Tuesday November 6. Here and everywhere, neatness counts!! You may be brilliant and you may mean just the right things, but if the teaching assistants will be having hard time deciphering your work they will give up and assume it is wrong.

Task 1. Read/reread sections 1.6, 1.7, and 2.1 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read. Remember that your prof. thinks that section 1.7 is useless fun. Also, preread the rest of chapter 2, just to get a feel for the future.

Task 2. Solve problems 17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29a, and 29b on pages 56-57 and problems 1, 2, 5, 13, 17 and 18 on pages 74-76, but submit only your solutions of the underlined problems.

Just for fun. Decide if the vectors and are linearly dependent.

How Can This Be?
Two congruent triangles are assembled using congruent pieces, yet one is bigger than the other