Dictionary Stories (a book about sentences found in a dictionary) is a creative way to look at dictionaries. Who knew that a dictionary contained mysteries and romance stories?

One way to improve your vocabulary is to read dictionaries.  Here's an interesting person who studied the "example sentences" in a dozen dictionaries for thousands of words... and short stories emerged.

Here is an example of a story that the author put together using SENTENCES from dictionaries.  His skill is finding a connection between two sentences.

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Three questions from an ACT Test -- Free Test Prep By Phone

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Here are three questions that were found in an ACT test.

ooooo ... ratios to ratios.  How do we make the connection?

We have "x:y" or "x to y"

We have "y:z" or "y to z"

They want us to give them  "x"z" or "x to z"

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Plug in and look for the result that you want to find.

In this example, the formula says "7 cans of dog food in 3 days"

What would make the dog eat 14 cans of dog food?  We need ___ days

Ah ha!   SIX days.   

So if "d" is 3, then we will get "14 cans of food" as a result with the correct formula.

When we put "d=3"  WHICH formula gives us "14 cans of food"?   That's the aim of this video.


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Look at the ANSWERS -- don't immediately solve the problem.

(1) When there is a fraction, we try to make sure the bottom numbers are the same.

(2) When we see ROOTS (radicals), we try to eliminate them from the bottom


I made an error in this problem because I immediately tried STRATEGY 2 (change square root of 2 into 2 by multiplying top and bottom by Square root of 2)


I should have LOOKED AT THE ANSWERS...  We can see that there is a SQUARE ROOT of 5 or 6 in several of the answers.

AH HA!

I should IGNORE Strategy 2 ("clear the roots from the bottom of the fraction") and focus on STRATEGY 1 ("Make the bottom number the same in the two fractions that we will add")