Ellie Arroway Research Paper

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To begin with, #3. Ellie Arroway : Mathematics is the only true universal language. Math is taught all over the world and the same rules are consistent across each nation of Earth. If I were to ask a student from Norway, a student from China, and a student from Argentina (all three took calculus 1)to take the derivative of cot x. The answer for each student would be the same (-csc^2 x). Another example would be a human and an extraterrestrial being finding the distance of a motor vehicle has traveled given the velocity and the time. If the velocity was ten meters per second and the time was two seconds then then the final answer for the distance is 5 meters. Both the human and the extraterrestrial being would get 5 meters as the answer. Also, most people know the answer to 2+2 but not everyone can read a sign in english. This is true because arithmetic is a universal language that everyone can use. …show more content…

When you are given two linear system of equations there are three ways to solve for the x and y coordinate where the two equations intersect. You can rewrite the equations in y = mx + b form and then graph them and see which and x and y coordinate they intersect. You can also use substitution, this involves singling out the x and plugging that x value into the other equation and solving for y. After you do that, you can plug in x into the the other equation and solve for that y and vice versa.. You can also use elimination, this involves looking for matching coefficients and adding/subtracting or multiplying one equation by a number that will make one of the coefficients of a variable match in both equations and then adding/subtracting. The beauty of math is that even if you don’t know how to solve a problem, you have some mathematical institution as to how to approach a

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