WE'RE STILL IGNORING TYPE_A_TIFF- Page 6

[Allie]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:35pm

Noooooo! I'm sorry, but unlike some of you on here, I actually GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT... what a concept, eh?

But I did copy and paste it into a word document and will probably do it tomorrow

[Aisy]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:38pm

OMG!!!! i'll try to help you tiff!
well actually i don't think i could be any help, but still i'll try

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:39pm

okay we'll figure it out together!

[Aisy]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:40pm

*thinking thinking, thinking hard*

[Allie]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:43pm

Holy CRAP this one is hard! I don't have the brainpower for it right now. You know I'll end up doing it later, though.

Heehee. I just realized that I used 'eh' in my last post. I AM CANADIAN.

Goodnight for real this time. And again, GOOD LUCK Tiff. I'll send the good vibes your way.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:47pm

Thanks love. And figure it out!

[Allie]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:48pm

I will, I will... *throws all books for studying out the window*

edit: I'm a stand-by!! Yay! Alright, REALLY going this time. Updated On: 12/3/04 at 11:48 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:53pm

Go to bed, Tiff. :P

Anyhoo, I kind of had my point of collapse early this evening. Literally. I collapsed on my bed and couldn't get up because I'd just worked with my poli sci group for 6 straight hours and you know how much sleep I've gotten lately. So...45 minutes later I was up again and vowed not to work for the rest of the day. Which now seems stupid, because I still have a crapload of stuff due Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. *sigh* So much for Chanukah...

-Plum, feeling whiny

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:55pm

Aww, I'll listen to you whine. I can emphathize, plus you guys have been good to me about ignoring me. (Well, sort of. )

Do you feel refreshed now? What other assignments do you have? I'm contemplating taking a quick nap and then starting to study, but I don't know if I'll regain consciousness.

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:58pm

to quote Davis Sedaris' brother Paul aka The Rooster:

"when life f*cks your sh*t up, sometimes you gotta say f*ck it and eat yourself some motherf*ckin' candy!"

[Plum]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:59pm

I no longer feel like I'm going to die, which is always a plus. I just have a slight headache and fatigue now. As for my assignments, I have the final poli sci paper due Monday (that's what I was working on with the group), Shakespeare writeups due Tuesday, and musicianship homework due Wednesday. Then I have my psychology final next Tuesday and my musicianship final next Wednesday. And then it's winter break time. Woot!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:01am

Eloquent, Bway_Matt!

Plum, oh man. I don't even wanna think about next week. I'm fighting one losing battle at a time.

Do you guys have any idea how to crack the problem I posted?

[insomniak]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:03am

I actually am interested in trying them, but not now. Too much to keep up on. I'm going to save them on my computer and give them a shot sometime.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:04am

Huh? Oh, I started the second one and was doing fine, but when the third question started by violating the premises of the problem as a whole I got pissed. Want me to keep going anyway? I love these things.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:05am

If you can do it fairly quickly, sure. I don't want you to waste all your time on it! I'm just having trouble figuring out how to do that in 8 minutes!

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:11am

Okay, you start with the easiest conditions- flounder must be number 2 and kingfish must be 5 or 6. Check each answer to make sure it matches up to those conditions and right away you eliminate answer e and and d.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:14am

Next, check the other conditions. I found it useful to make a table- the vertical is the choices (a through e) and the horizontal is the number of the course (1-7). The cells each had the first letter of the fish. So row a would be JFLMGKH. It makes things easier to look at.

Answer c is eliminated because G doesn't come 2 before H.
Answer b is eliminated because L comes after G.

So the answer to 1 is a.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:15am

oh okay. i see. i was able to get #1. it's the "if" questions that throw me off, and i don't know what diagrams work out best.

oh wait. #1 isn't (a).

Updated On: 12/4/04 at 12:15 AM

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:20am

Okay, question 2- obviously the haddock can't be in the #2 spot. Look at the other conditions- if K comes after J and K is 5 or 6, then J must be 5 or 4 or below. But it's the next conditions that are really vital. G comes 2 before H, so H must be 3 or above. But if L comes before G then H must be 4 or above. And once again, since F must be number 2, then H must be 5 or above. Making the answer (I think) c. Is that right?

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:21am

It's not? Geez, I'm addled. Let me look again.

ETA: I'm still getting a. Unless grouper coming 2 courses before haddock doesn't mean what I think it means. Updated On: 12/4/04 at 12:21 AM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:24am

okay hang on lemme try it again.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:29am

Okay, third question (I'm losing my confidence. Aaaah!).

If K is 5, than G can't be at 3 since it's 2 before H. So choice a is out. H can't be at 4 because then G would be at 2, and 2 is occupied by F. So choice b is out. J could be number 3, but it doesn't have to be. 3 could be L. And either J or L could be 1. So that leaves choice e- M is 7- which is true. Even though J and L are interchangable neither can be at 7 because L comes before G and J comes before K.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:32am

And the answer to number 4 is c, which I just thought was the best possibility after doing number 3 and seeing how much the kingfish affects the rest of it. It was just a matter of testing that choice. I could lay out the logic of it, though, if you want.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:36am

Okay, on to the harder ones! (I love talking to myself.)

Okay, question 1. We know the gender layout of the statues must be MFMF or FMFM or FMMF. Which means we don't know what the gender of statue 3 is, which means answers a and b are out. We don't know enough about where the gangster is to say it's c. The answer is obviously d since only statues 1 or 4 can glow in the dark.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 12:39am

Question 2: Definitely c.

If statue 4 is a male glowing one, then it must be an athlete as well. We established that the only possible gender configurations are FMFM, MFMF, or FMMF. If statue 4 is male, then it must be the FMFM configuration, so a and b are true. And statue 3 stands between the athletes. So the answer is c. Simple. :)