Date: Fri Nov 15 10:35:19 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to question one is 16.5 percent. First, I had to find how many calories were in the burger. I multiplied the number of calories per fat gram by how many grams of fat were in the burger. I did the same for the carbohydrates and protein. Add the three answers together to get 330. Next reduce the fraction 330/2000 by deviding by 10. Then devide by two and get 16.5/100.
Date: Fri Nov 15 10:47:32 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to number two is 21/55. I multiplied the number of fat grams in the burger by the number of calories per gram of fat. I got 126. Reduce that down to 16.5/100.
Date: Fri Nov 15 10:49:02 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): On the challenge, do you work backwards?
Date: Wed Nov 20 14:53:19 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Instructor Comments: Amy,
Please respond as soon as possible to this student.--Dr. Bowers
Date: Wed Nov 20 19:09:00 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Mentor Reply: Connor,
Good job on the first answer. It is correct. I do think that it would be a good idea to state the answer as 33/200, rather than reduce it again, so there is no decimal in the fraction. As for the second question, I can see that you have correctly calculated the number of calories from fat. I am unclear about where you went from there. After finding the total number of calories from fat, you need to find out what portion of the total calories are from fat. I hope this helps. Also, you are absolutley correct about working backwards on the challenge problem. Good luck.
Amy
Date: Wed Nov 20 19:10:12 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Mentor Reply: Connor,
Good job on the first answer. It is correct. I do think that it would be a good idea to state the answer as 33/200, rather than reduce it again, so there is no decimal in the fraction. As for the second question, I can see that you have correctly calculated the number of calories from fat. I am unclear about where you went from there. After finding the total number of calories from fat, you need to find out what portion of the total calories are from fat. I hope this helps. Also, you are absolutley correct about working backwards on the challenge problem. Good luck.
Amy
Date: Thu Nov 21 10:27:18 PST 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Instructor Comments: Amy
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Can you tell me why he needs to not reduce to have a decimal in the fraction? He should be congratulated for stating the answer in the form of a percent, which is why he put the number over 100 (which resulted in the decimal). Rest of the reply is fine. --Dr. Bowers
