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This blog accompanies the College Mathline television program produced by Palomar College. 

Here you can post a question for us or a comment about the show. You can also find information on our "real world" applications of mathematics.
Showing posts with label contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contest. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

new contest!


One last contest for everyone!

Some algebra may be required! If you figure it out, you can be our official winner by calling us and giving us your answer on our final live broadcast, Wednesday April 15. The phone number is (888) 762-1489. Good luck!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

new contest!


As described above, we have a new contest running. You may need to use a little algebra! If you figure it out, you can be our official winner by calling us and giving us your answer on our next live broadcast (March 18). The phone number is (888) 762-1489. Good luck!

Monday, October 20, 2008

new contest


We have a contest running right now as outlined in the graphic above. You can't change the position of the digits, but you can use as many of those mathematical symbols as you like. You can even put parentheses around digits, like ( 5 4 ), and consider that "54." And if you haven't seen that symbol "^" used before, that is used for exponents. (So 4^3 means 4 cubed.) We know of one way to do it, but there are probably many correct answers. If you find one, you can be our official winner by calling us and giving us the result during the live broadcast this Wednesday, October 22, 5-6 PM. The phone number is 1-888-762-1489. Good luck!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Contest!

We have a new contest for you:
If you were to write the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... up to 100,000, how many zeros would you write? 

We received some incorrect answers during the program today (hint: the number of zeros is a lot higher than 11,000 or 11,111) so the contest is still open. If you figure it out, don't post an answer here! Be the first one to call us live next Wednesday to claim the prize. (1-888-762-1489 is the toll-free number.)