Math Story Problem

E-mail | 14 June 2006 | Unknown

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just Damn,....that's home country....

[Hoodat]

Here's three more for ya.

1) A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?

2) If your uncle builds a still which operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car radiators are required to condense the product?

3) A coalmine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is issued at the beginning of the 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered Camels will be smoked during the shift?

[HiTech RedNeck]

yooooohoooooooo

[decal]

Answer to all three: ALL of them.

[DannyTN]

7. Teaching Math in 2007.

This test is discrimnatory, so if you fail, don't worry, you will pass anyway.

[capt. norm]

At a TV station where I worked we had the live remote truck with it's extensible microwave antenna at a local high school football field where they had just finished a live interview with the coach. It was only about 8 blocks from the studios so they returned to the station's inside garage during the newscast.

Near the end of the newscast there was an audible crash, even through the studio soundproofing. The driver of the live truck had forgotten to lower the microwave antenna all the way. It was (or had been at this point) about 20 or so feet up.

The police were right behind him because he damaged two traffic signal lights along his route to the station.

[Ciexyz]

Teaching math in 2006

hehehe

[DaGman]

Wow!

[backhoe]

All I can think of is

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Just Damn!

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[Arrowhead1952]

Several years ago, something similar happened at Jarrell TX (about 25 miles north of Austin). A large crane was going north on IH 35. The control seals were worn and the bucket arm started rising by itself.

When the arm hit the bridge, the pre-stressed beams fell and hit the road. One lady driving alongside the rig, hit the beam on the road. She sustained a few broken bones but fortunately was not killed.

It took the highway department several hours to clear the road and repave the area the beams hit the surface. The bridge was out for several months.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Just Damn,....that's home country...."
Hope the bridge had insurance.

[SunkenCiv]

The bridge isn't the only thing with Crack.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Great site; I just wasted 45 minutes of my employers time!

[1rudeboy]

Nice. Looks like someone did a fine job of securing the backhoe to the trailer.

[Clinging Bitterly]

I've seen some really messed up iron. One outfit we do work for had a track drill out on a job and left it parked too close to a railroad track. A train sideswiped it and messed it up pretty good, but everybody involved (it was rented) decided to have it fixed. So we are calling the Gardiner-Denver folks and they are saying "You want a what?", because trains running into things tends to break stuff that doesn't usually get broken. It was in our shop for a month (mostly waiting for parts) and the bill came to 60 grand.

But wow, 2.5 miles of power line and cross tees, that's pretty good.

[Professional Engineer]

Driving trucks now?

[Darksheare]

85 MPH.
He came to an abrupt halt after the excavator lifted briefly, letting the flatbed travel a further three feet.
Excavator came back down, and caught the flatbed wheels.

Ouch.

Wasn't me, honest.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Just a month ago one of our own service trucks lost it out in the woods and tumbled some distance down a hillside. I could get in trouble for posting the pix right now so I won't, but this was a brand new Sterling Acterra with service body, crane, welder & the works, loaded with all of our field tech's tools and other equipment. The truck is crumpled into a ball of twisted metal and it's contents scattered along about a thousand feet of hillside. The combined loss of truck and the tech's personal property was about a hundred grand. The tech stayed in the truck all the way down the hill (amazingly, not using a seat belt but the cab doors stayed closed) and walked away without a scratch. Our safety guy isn't grumbling about his non use of the seat belt because the cab roof was flattened down to the dash.