Celebrating our Independent Variables Everywhere with a Liberty Bell Curve!
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Happy Independence Day!
I'd love to include a scene from the movie "1776", just because it's so much fun, but how to do that legally? Maybe just down one of their songs?
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There are more elements to T, but the flag is only so big.
The Cardinality of R is at least 3, according to the text "among these are".
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As far as I know, there aren't rules for displaying a flag at 45 degrees. It probably shouldn't. You probably will never have a radical-two length flag, either.
Before you answer, shoo the fly away. Some rounded errors may have occurred.
This comic was going to have a grandfather/grandson thing going on to add a lighter, more humorous touch. But then I realized that it didn't need it. So it's a straight math problem, silly as it is, without the usual silly twist.
For the record, the actual ratio of the width to length of the U.S. Flag should be 1:1.9, not 13:25 as presented in the problem. That just made life a little easier. Sorry, my students' aversion to all things fractional (or decimal-equivalent) may be rubbing off on me.
And I'd like to add that the photo of the fireworks in the background was shot by yours truly. So it's used by permission of the owner (myself) and is NOT in the public domain.
