Date: Fri Nov 15 11:40:14 PST 2002
Student's Name: Leland
Answer(or question to Mentor): For the answer 1) is 6.3% of calories. I got the answer because the 14 calories times the 1 of every 9 calories equals 126/2000. I find the simplest form and that is 63/1000. I find the percentage of 100 and that is 6.3%.
Date: Mon Nov 18 19:24:22 PST 2002
Student's Name: Leland
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to 2) is 14% of fat. I got this because I took the 14 grams of fat and I got 14/100 of fat. So I find the percentage which is out of 100. That is 14% of fat.
Date: Mon Nov 18 19:48:20 PST 2002
Student's Name: Leland
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to the challenge problem is 36 McNuggets. I got this because I just randomly picked out 36 the number. I knew to do so because 36 is a multiple of 3. I found 1/3 of that which equals to 12. That is 24, so 1/3 of 24 is 18. So 6 is left. 1/2 of 6 is 3 and it said that 3 McNuggets were left so 36 McNuggets is my answer.
Date: Tue Nov 19 14:46:06 PST 2002
Student's Name: Leland
Mentor Reply: Dear Leland,
Thank you for your response. Your answer for the challenge is correct, but your answers for parts one and two are incorrect. For part one you only took the calories from the fat of the cheeseburger, but you also need to take the calories from the carbohydrates and protein to find total calories in the cheeseburger. After you find the total calories of the cheeseburger you can find the percent or fraction the calories that are used from the daily intake.
For part two remember you are talking about the fat calories not just the fat grams.
Good luck.
Corrie
Date: Wed Nov 20 15:55:20 PST 2002
Student's Name: Leland
Instructor Comments: Corrie,--
Excellent job of explaining what he did mathematically. That is really a great way to go, and what I was hoping this assignment and project would encourage people to do. I would also say that the explanations were very good and helped you figure out where the errors were- or something like that to substantiate why explanations good explanations are helpful.--Dr. Bowers
Date: Wed Nov 20 19:07:44 PST 2002
Student's Name: Leland
Mentor Reply: Dear Leland,
Thank you for your response. Your answer for the challenge is correct, but your answers for parts one and two are incorrect. However, your explanation was very good and helped me figure out where your errors were. For part one you only took the calories from the fat of the cheeseburger, but you also need to take the calories from the carbohydrates and protein to find total calories in the cheeseburger. After you find the total calories of the cheeseburger you can find the percent or fraction the calories that are used from the daily intake.
For part two remember you are talking about the fat calories not just the fat grams. Good luck.
Corrie
