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What is the spring constant equation?

Hooke’s Law holds true for any type of spring. It also holds true for any elastic body that is deformed and reformed, similar to a spring. Hooke’s Law was determined by Robert Hooke during the 17th century. He first stated that law as a Latin anagram in a newspaper and revealed the answer to the riddle many years later. The law then became a part of physics literature and has described the motion of a spring and elastic bodies ever since.

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How do you write "3 times the sum of a number and 5" as an algebraic expression?

The base equation in this problem is "the sum of a number and 5." This means that a number, x, and 5 must be added, which is written as x+5. The next step is to determine what must be done to x+5. Since the problem says "3 times the sum of a number and 5," x+5 needs to be multiplied by 3. This is written as 3(x+5).

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How long does it take to count to a billion?

In the United States, the term "billion" is denoted by the number 1 followed by 9 zeros, or 1,000,000,000. The estimated time it would take to count without pause from one to one billion is taken by initially dividing one billion seconds by 60 to get the number of minutes. The result is further divided by 60 to obtain the number of hours and then divided by 24 to get the number of days. To obtain the number of years, the result is again divided by 365.25, with the decimal part accounting for leap years.

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How long would it take to drive 67 miles at 70 miles per hour?

In this particular example, 67 miles divided by 70 miles per hour equals 0.957 hours. To find out how many minutes 0.957 hours is requires multiplying 0.957 hours by 60 minutes per hour to get the answer 57.43 minutes. Finding an unknown distance or rate is also possible as long as the other two variables in the equation are known. Distance equals rate multiplied by time, and rate equals distance divided by time.

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What games are for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition?

Flappy Bird Color is a port of the popular smartphone game. This addicting and notoriously difficult game has players control the titular flappy bird as it navigates through a narrow tunnel filled with pipes. Although players can only move the bird up and down, the game requires precision control and extremely quick reflexes.\nThe classic Snake game is the same one that users know from the early days of cellphones. Players control a simple pixelated snake as it moves around the screen, collecting dots and avoiding both walls and its own tail. The snake grows longer with each piece of food it c..

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Who invented numbers?

Early counting used fingers to number each item. Simple markers, such as rocks, served to count larger numbers. The abacus, one of the earliest formal counting tools, was invented about 1200 A.D. in China. The ancient Greeks developed math into a science starting in 600 B.C. Archimedes, who was born sometime after 300 B.C., is credited with discovering the number pi to calculate the surface of a sphere.

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What system are our numbers based on?

The number farthest to the right before any decimal point is the ones' place. The next number to the left is the tens' place, the next is the hundreds' place and the next is the thousands' place. Each place to the left is 10 times the value of the place to the right. To the right of the decimal point is the tenths' place, followed by the hundredths, thousandths, ten-thousandths and so forth.

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What is the sample mean formula?

The sample mean formula is essential when it comes to finding the average of raw data. In statistics, the sample mean is used as an estimate of the population mean since it is usually enormous. For example, it can be used to calculate the mean marks obtained on an exam by a group of students in a selected class. Alternatively, it is can be used in evaluating the average age of people in a given country since it would be very difficult to add up the ages of every single member of the population.

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What do you call a number that has more than two factors?

Any whole number that is not a prime number is a composite. All even numbers, except the number two are composites, as they are divisible by two. Prime factors of a number are useful in finding the least common denominator in a fraction. They are also helpful in determining the greatest common factor of a number. The larger a number, the greater the chance it is a composite.

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What are some interesting facts about Fibonacci?

Fibonacci’s greatest accomplishment was the introduction of the Hindu-Arabic numbering system to Europe around the beginning of the 13th century. Prior to this point, Europeans primarily relied on Roman numerals. However, Fibonacci felt that Hindu-Arabic numerals were much easier to use when performing arithmetic, which led him to publish “Liber Abaci,” a book that outlined the new numbering system.\nFibonacci is also famous for something called “Fibonacci numbers,” which refers to a sequence, or pattern, of numbers. In a Fibonacci series, each number is equal to the sum of the two p..

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