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“Character Sketch” based on Michael Foster from “Two Fishermen”

Michael Foster is a tall, Caucasian news reporter who dreams of working in the city. He is currently working for the town newspaper, The Examiner. He is always eager to have a friendly conversation and is quite sociable. However, his pale skin and long legs can make him seem to be a very shady individual. Being extremely ambitious, Michael works hard to achieve his goals, and will even go as far as manipulation in order to do so. Hence, he is also very unstable with his moral standards. He is easily influenced by others around him, and is willing to sacrifice his own opinion on what is right to fit in with the crowd. Despite this weakness, Michael is a focused, clever young man who has the potential to go far.

Week 7 – Math 10

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This question stumped me for a very long time, since it had multiple parts that weren’t all trigonometry. For example, I was not sure if I had to use the distance over time triangle from physics, or if I should use unit analysis from the measurement unit. I tried many different things, and I finally found out how to solve the problem!

At first I used sine to figure out the length of the hypotenuse, but later on as I thought about it, I realized it would not make sense. The biker is going along a highway, it’s impossible to travel along the hypotenuse side! So I changed the equations:

tan 8 = \frac{60}{x}

\frac{60}{tan 8} = 426.92

\frac{426.92 km}{20 s}={x km}{1 hr}

I multiplied 20s by 3 into 60s, which is 1 minute. Then I multiplied it by 60 to convert it into 1 hour. You must do the same to the top numbers, so I got an answer of:

426.92\cdot 30\cdot 60 = 76.84

So the average speed the biker travelled at is 77km/hr!

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