Tuesday, October 13, 2020

False Position

I believe the false position is unique in the sense that it doesn't give you the solution but rather allows you to come up with an easy answer into what x equals. 

e.g. An Apple store will sold some of their Iphones this week and had 2000 Iphones in stock. How many Iphones did they sell this week if they have 1500 remaining in stock? 


Try x = 250


2000 - x = 1500

Since X = 250 that would leave them with 1750 remaining Iphones (250 more than what was sold) so if you double x = 250*2 you will get 500 


2000 - 500 = 1500


at

1 comment:

  1. Susan GerofskyNovember 11, 2020 at 11:36 PM

    Winston, that is actually NOT the way the ancient Egyptians would have used the method of false position, as this is simply a subtraction question (2000-1500 = 500). The false position questions generally involve a fraction with the unknown (x) in the numerator. You've made an honest attempt at this, but it needs to be redone to show you really understand.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Assignment 3: History of Coding

Our group's roadmap for the History of Coding and Computer Algorithms is below (the link is more useful, but the screenshot is the roadm...

  • False Position
    I believe the false position is unique in the sense that it doesn't give you the solution but rather allows you to come up with an easy ...
  • History of Babylonian Word Problems
      When reading "The History of the Word Problem Genre" I was shocked at how similar the word problems look to what I have taken in...
  • Assignment #1 Reflection
    The first assignment was an interesting one for my group as we had no previous knowledge on the history of Pythagorean Triples and how far b...