Ed: BJ FOR BLOOD

[Don Schlesinger]

> ay-ya. let me ask my previous answer in
> further detail...

How about asking your previous question in greater detail?!!

> if tc is +6

Ahem. If running count is +6!!

> and i have 1 1/4 deck remaining, do i a) divide > +6 by 1.25 or b) divide +6 by 5 (the # of > > quarter decks left?)

You divide it by 1.25 (see my above post). And, because that's hard to do -- quick, what's 9 divided by 1.25?! -- instead, multiply by 0.8. So, quick, now what is 9/1.25? It's 7.2! Easy!

Don

[Not my usual]

RC = 6 and I want to convert to TC with 1.25 decks remaining.> You divide it by 1.25 (see my above post).
> And, because that's hard to do -- quick,
> what's 9 divided by 1.25?! -- instead,
> multiply by 0.8. So, quick, now what is
> 9/1.25? It's 7.2! Easy!

I should know this but for some reason I don't. I'm not a mathie. I always attempt to do the division. How do you know to multiply by 0.8 and not some other number? Why 0.8? Why is it not by some other number?

[miss brown]

> How about asking your previous question
> in greater detail?!!

> Ahem. If running count is +6!!
(sorry, that's what i meant)

> You divide it by 1.25 (see my above post).
(i understand that part)

> And, because that's hard to do -- quick,
> what's 9 divided by 1.25?! -- instead,
> multiply by 0.8. So, quick, now what is
> 9/1.25? It's 7.2! Easy!
(alright, i know you must be tired of this, but you lost me. where did 9 come from? i thought our imaginary tc was 6? and why 0.8?)

miss b.

[Don Schlesinger]

> I should know this but for some reason I
> don't. I'm not a mathie. I always attempt to
> do the division. How do you know to multiply
> by 0.8 and not some other number? Why 0.8?
> Why is it not by some other number?

1.25 = 1 1/4 = 5/4.

When you divide by a fraction (5/4), the rule says to invert (turn upside-down) that fraction and then multiply.

So, to divide by 5/4, we multiply by 4/5. But 4/5 is 0.8, in decimal form.

Homework:
By what should I multiply if I'm dividing by:
a) 2.5
b) 0.5
c) 1.5 (round to the nearest tenth)

Don

[Don Schlesinger]

"(alright, i know you must be tired of this, but you lost me. where did 9 come from? i thought our imaginary tc was 6? and why 0.8?)"

I just made up another problem. I wanted it to be hard to do in your head.

Don

[miss brown]

> Homework:
> By what should I multiply if I'm dividing
> by:
> a) 2.5
> b) 0.5
> c) 1.5 (round to the nearest tenth)

> a) .4

b) 2

c) .7

right?

[Don Schlesinger]

Good for you! :-)

Don

[miss brown]

thank you. i get it. that little trick just made everything so much easier.