Shamekia S.
asked • 05/24/17Solve for x. Assume that lines which appear tangent are tangent
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Kenneth S. answered • 05/24/17
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No figure, no help. ALSO, THIS IS A DUPLICATED SUBMISSION. I suggest that it be withdrawn.
Kenneth S. answered • 05/24/17
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Believe what you want, but you have to show us, or describe completely, the figure in order for us to verify or help.
Harvey F.
Please notice that I was commenting TO Shamekia to illustrate that x could be anything since there is no other information given in her question! I was trying to let her see that she could get any answer to her question including my attempt at humor by giving the numerical order of the letter x in our alphabet. Maybe I should have invoked the identity property to say that "x = x".
I find it amazing that we see so many "questions" that make no sense to anyone, yet students somehow expect to get meaningful answers!
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05/25/17
Kenneth S.
I concur with your observation, Harvey. Did not mean to make you a collateral victim of my own attempt at irony.
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05/25/17
Harvey F.
No harm done - I just wanted to clarify. In the past I participated in the Answers resource, but I determined that it never resulted in a paying student for me (as Wyzant suggests) and that it actually prevents students from ever seeking a tutoring relationship since the answers are endlessly "free". I have suggested that Wyzant put some limit on the total number of answers per student, but alas, no response. Have a great summer.
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05/25/17
Kenneth S.
Harvey, FYI...I'm retired & living in Thailand so all of my Answering via WyzAnt is pro bono work.
But I do feel a need to answer philosophically (and editorially) when questions come in that are faulty in their wording, and especially in cases where I suspect that the badly designed problems come from the helter-skelter world of Common Core questions that are not adequately vetted before their release into the wild. I also feel it a duty to encourage students to wake up, pay attention in class, and learn from lecture (if any) and book (if any) or from answers provided.
Best wishes to you, sir.
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Harvey F.
05/24/17