Word: 2y
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having taught college mathematics for several years, the writer is familiar with the situation described in your July 28 article and heartily approves any attempt to improve it. One of the illustrations is not clear: "For every x and y, if the cost of a book is 2y - 3 dollars, then the total cost of 7x such books...
...dollars." No relationship between x and y is given, and the question is impossible both abstractly and concretely. Or are we to assume that x = 2y -3? It looks as if your Education editor might be among those for whom it is proposed to reform the teaching of mathematics...
...baby Mary Agnes Moroney had an operation for a ruptured navel, and doctors said it would probably have left a lifetime scar. Mrs. McClelland has no such scar. The Richmond (Calif.) Independent printed a story saying that Mary's foster mother got her from a foundling home 2y½ears before the kidnaping, though she could produce no records to prove it. A California doctor thought he remembered delivering the child in Martinez, Calif., but also had nothing to prove...
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