Math Quiz

[ashling]

[Electric Monk]

1. K&R

[patrice]

2. K&R Kickingness.

[patrice]

3. Bookmarking. Thanks, ashling!

[Initech]

4. Excellent question!!!

[WCGreen]

5. This is the kind of stuff that brought Julius Caesar to power...

[midnight]

6. Not much at all.... Take the 183 billion and replace the money for the teachers and students..

[ashling]

11. Thanks, but

it was a rhetorical question

[burrowowl]

7. Did they pass math in

grade school. How education system needs looking into or their performance.

[namaste2]

8. The right has successfully changed the conversation again...

PBO and the democrats were on a roll but lost the dialog to the "sequester" so-called crisis. Back to jobs, jobs, jobs, and get off the deficit. The majority of the country don't even realize PBO has decreased the deficit, not increased it. There is no "out-of-control" spending going on. Only the right going "out-of-their-collective-minds" about the budget and deficits and we have given ground. Let's get back to what is actually going on.

There is no reason to be doing this to ourselves!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. Answer (not the one you want): $600 million dollars is the best guess.

I'm afraid that you yourself appear to have made a fairly elementary mathematical error - you can't add quantities with different dimensions. You're trying to add a value in dollars per year to one in dollars per year per year.


The deficit is the first derivative of your wealth with regards to time.

The reduction in deficit is the second derivative.

The money that you're losing due to offshore tax havens is constant year on year - it contributes 183 billion to the first derivative, but nothing to the second (unless that 183 billion was a different number last year, which it may have been, but your post doesn't give us grounds to assume that).

Teachers who were employed last year but not this year, however, correspond to a change in the first derivative, which is to say that they show up in the second derivative.


Either you need to compare the total amount spent on teachers salaries in a year with the 183 billion, or you need to compare the difference between the 183 billion and the corresponding figure last year with the 600 million.

[ashling]

12. It was a rhetorical question

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Amen

[Mnemosyne]

13. K&R nt