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  • July 1, 2015
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    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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  • June 24, 2015
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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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  • June 10, 2015
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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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  • June 1, 2015
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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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  • May 27, 2015
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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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  • May 27, 2015
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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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  • May 21, 2015
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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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  • May 19, 2015
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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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  • May 5, 2015
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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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  • April 27, 2015
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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…

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