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To: epicure who wrote (178896)1/8/2012 8:29:43 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541967
 
If plantation owner Johnson found that if he beat a slave twice a week, his behavior would improve, and he had 300 slaves, how many beatings in a year would he have to have his overseers administer to get the best behavior?



To: epicure who wrote (178896)1/8/2012 10:54:05 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541967
 
The teacher was a boob.

Go ahead and connect the slavery to the math. No problem. But why not choose a problem about how many chickens and ears of corn it might take to feed x number of slaves? Why go with the beatings thing?

I'm not about to let the teacher off the hook for that. Just plain dumb.


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