Can You Maximize a Profit Function?
Business calculus students know this problem all too well… how much of some thingamabob should I make to make the most money? I love me some…
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The Best Rules for Writing Out Numbers
Deciding how to express numbers in your writing can be confusing. Especially since there’s no consensus on what’s right and what’s wrong. There are some basic…
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Does the word “alright” even exist?
Just like living organisms, the English language is constantly evolving. New words are added to the lexicon every year while old words are forgotten. It’s what…
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What are em dashes & how do they work?
Unlike the en dash which is often confused for a hyphen and substituted as such, the em dash play a unique role in English writing. However,…
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Ending Sentences with Prepositions
So a visitor at Harvard stops a student and asks, “Excuse me, can you please tell me where is the library at?” The Harvard students replies,…
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Here’s an Easier Way To Calculate Standard Deviation
So you just started a statistics unit, and you’ve learned about a little thing called standard deviation. And you might be thinking, “Why in the world…
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If You Have To Find a Slope, Read This.
What’s slope anyway? Well, kind of intuitively, it’s just a way to measure how tilted a line is. We could say “oh, this one is kinda…
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The Key to Subject-Verb Agreement
You may not recognize it by name, but subject-verb agreement is something you do in every sentence. In fact, it’s the foundation of every sentence and…
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Success Does Not Follow a Straight Line
Life can change in an instant – a birth, a death, an accident, a chance meeting with someone, exposure to an idea, an acceptance, a denial,…
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Standardized Testing Changes on the Horizon
What do the new changes mean for you? With a slew of new changes hitting the SAT next spring, high school students across the country have…