Sunday, March 14, 2010

Progress Update 2 (edited)

Well Wan my group and I generalized by taking the length, width, and height and multiplied them while keeping "x" the same. For example for one of the charts for Fed Ex Ground which was for the box named "square face"the length is (84-6x), the width is (2x), and the height is (x) so we took those three and made our generalized form which is (84-6x)(x)(2x).
The way we got those numbers for length is because in order to get length you need to subtract total minus the girth. The total was already given to us by FedEx Ground. The girth we got is w+h+w+h which gave me 6x. so that's how I got (84-6x). As for the height we decided that it will be the same as x to make our life simple. So for example if x=5 height will be 5. And width we decided that it'll be twice as much as heights. So for example if my height was 5 the width would be 10.
When organizing our data my group and I simply made different tables for each different type of box for that company. Each chart had its x, length, width, height, girth, total, and volume column.
After organizing the data we began to graph. The x axis scale is two and y-axis scale is 500 hundreds. The graph makes the two turns. But we have not yet put our findings together.

1 comment:

  1. Nice update!

    Some notes on your post:

    1. Break up your post into paragraphs for external evaluators.

    2. The name "square face" is misleading on your example, since the height is x and the width is 2x.

    3. How was the volume generalized?

    4. 500 hundreds?

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