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   The mid-term days finally came and I am here writing down what I have to say for this week's studying blog. As for this week, I looked into some of some math problems for the GRE exam. Since the exam was comprised of quantitative reasoning section that counted for about half of it, it was not to be overlooked. So, I drilled in some flip and flop questions that were closely associated with sticking in numbers for some symbolic math figures. 

     There was this one problem I remember that was neither too hard nor too easy. Here it goes: If a=2 , b=4, c=10  What is a+b/2 - ba/3 + abc-bc? Well, like I say, this one was not that hard or not that easy. Accordingly, I just had to insert the numbers in the places that it belonged. In short, a+b/2 - ba/3 + abc - bc would equal to 2+4/2 - 4*2/3 + 2*4*10 - 4*10=
121/3. 
     Another one, as far I remember, went something like this. Mary and Tome were baking cookies in two ovens. The oven Mary used had a baking rate of 5 cookies per hour, whereas Tome's oven possessed the baking rate of 8 cookies per hour. If combined, Mary and Tome cook produce how many cookies which were cooked in 22 hours? 
     A problem like the one above actually drive some people nuts if they were not doing so good back in the high school days or even their junior high school days. I believe there may be some students in the English major. Nonetheless, it was up to me to overcome this arithmetic barrier to go abroad to study in a department that was not so related to studying math literally.( I am thinking of applying to law school, education schools, and business schools). As good news, of course for me, I was okay at math at my high school days, since I majored in architecture before I majored in English education. Going back to the word problem, since they asked how many cookies could be cooked in 22 hours combined, I added the two rates of cooking of Mary's and Tome's oven, which was 13 cookies per hour. (That would be the speed of the two ovens integrated). And since the time was specified as 22 hours, I could have come up with the formula, 13*22=286 cookies.