Homework Hotline; 1992-12-09

<v Gordon Dorway>Hi, welcome to Homework Hotline. I'm Gordon Dorway <v George Wolfe>And I am George Wolfe, and you are, I don't know, nature just seems to be cooperating <v George Wolfe>with us tonight because you are looking at a live picture of a almost gone <v George Wolfe>heavenly display, a very rare full lunar eclipse happening right <v George Wolfe>now live in our nighttime sky. <v Gordon Dorway>Pretty exciting, George. You know, the last full lunar eclipse visible from Rochester was <v Gordon Dorway>in 1989. And, you know, we're not going to see another one until November of next year. <v George Wolfe>Yeah, that's right. And, you know, a lot of people wonder why are lunar eclipses so where <v George Wolfe>rare now, although the moon regularly orbits around the earth? <v George Wolfe>There's a little bit of a wobble in that orbit and it makes the moon pass slightly above <v George Wolfe>or slightly below the earth's shadow. <v Gordon Dorway>That's right <v George Wolfe>Now, Gordon, you've got kind of a demonstration. <v George Wolfe>You brought sort of a demonstration, you brought for us tonight. <v Gordon Dorway>That's right. That's right. It's a really nice demonstration. <v Gordon Dorway>You're gonna get a kick out of it <v George Wolfe>I'm looking forward to it. <v Gordon Dorway>Alright, let's watch this. OK, guys, this <v Gordon Dorway>is an example of our planetary system. <v Gordon Dorway>Here's the sun, here's the moon, and here's the Earth. <v Gordon Dorway>Now notice what happens when the sun casts a shadow because the sun is larger <v Gordon Dorway>than the Earth. The shadow is broken up into two distinct parts.

<v Gordon Dorway>The penumbra, which is the larger part of the shadow. <v Gordon Dorway>And finally, the Umbra, which is a very cone like part of the shadow. <v Gordon Dorway>The umbra is much darker than the penumbra. <v Gordon Dorway>Now, what happens? You know, the moon goes around the earth. <v Gordon Dorway>What's going to happen is this for a lunar eclipse, the moon will rotate around the earth <v Gordon Dorway>and it will pass into first the penumbra. <v Gordon Dorway>At that point, it will start to fade out, kind of get a dark, deep red kind of color. <v Gordon Dorway>Then as it passes into the umbra, it will start to fade out completely. <v Gordon Dorway>And then what you might see may be either a dark red color or no color at all, <v Gordon Dorway>because we're not quite sure what the effect of the atmosphere, the volcanic eruptions <v Gordon Dorway>that we've been having. We're not sure what the effect of that atmosphere is going to <v Gordon Dorway>have on what the lunar eclipse looks like. <v Gordon Dorway>After a period of time, the moon will pass out of the umbra into <v Gordon Dorway>the penumbra. They'll start to come back into into our view and then <v Gordon Dorway>it'll pass out of the penumbra and back out of the shadow completely

<v Gordon Dorway>again. <v Gordon Dorway>Hey, we're back again and George, you know, I think we're running into totality now. <v George Wolfe>Tot- That sounds cosmic. What's that mean? <v Gordon Dorway>It means that the moon is completely passing now into the penumbra. <v Gordon Dorway>It's darkening completely. And then in a little while, I think in about another 15, 20 <v Gordon Dorway>minutes that will begin passing into the umbra. <v Gordon Dorway>And then it's going to be completely gone if you can't see anything right now. <v Gordon Dorway>In a couple minutes, you won't be see anything at all. <v George Wolfe>Wow. And we certainly don't want to tell people to run outside and look at it cause then <v George Wolfe>they won't watch us. That's right. That's right. So you get to watch it live right here <v George Wolfe>on the Homework Hotline. <v Gordon Dorway>And you won't be cold. <v George Wolfe>That's true. And you know, when you think about it, how many shows in this country can <v George Wolfe>show you a live lunar eclipse? <v Gordon Dorway>I tell you. <v George Wolfe>And those. How do you do that? <v Gordon Dorway>Oh <v George Wolfe>What a great demonstr- <v Gordon Dorway>Too get complicated, to even begin to tell you. <v George Wolfe>I'm amazed and very impressed. You have to teach me that trick from my classroom. <v Gordon Dorway>I'll let y- I'll give you some secrets after the show. <v George Wolfe>All right. Sounds good. Nice Job. That was interesting. <v Gordon Dorway>It was great. Now, you know, George, I started a call yesterday and we had that this call <v Gordon Dorway>was actually from the day before yesterday. <v Gordon Dorway>But Mary Seatback asked us if we could do this problem algebraically. <v Gordon Dorway>And I still have that problem on the board. And now you're going to solve it for us

<v Gordon Dorway>algebraically. Oh, I am. I think are. Oh, a little. <v Gordon Dorway>Let me head over to the board, OK. <v George Wolfe>All right. And by the way, hi, Mary. I realize you're a parent of one of my former <v George Wolfe>students, Kate. Make sure you say hi to Kate, too. <v George Wolfe>But anyway, here, here's what Gordon's problem was. <v George Wolfe>And it was for a sixth grader. <v George Wolfe>So we had to use estimation. We couldn't use algebra, but it would make a great algebra <v George Wolfe>problem. He had a number that rounded to 5.3 . <v George Wolfe>The sum of the numbers is 18, and the thousandth place is 4 times the hundredth <v George Wolfe>place. Now, what's need about this is it's a problem a sixth grader can do, but it's also <v George Wolfe>a problem that a more advanced math student can do. <v George Wolfe>And at the end of the show yesterday, we challenge some of your more advanced math types <v George Wolfe>to see if you can get this done. Now, this tells us something with a thousandth place <v George Wolfe>that mean that this number has to be 5 point something, something, <v George Wolfe>something. Now, there are only two choices for <v George Wolfe>this number here. This can be a two a- or it can be <v George Wolfe>a 3 .

<v George Wolfe>Now, here's the clue. And here's where the algebra can come in, and it's this clue right <v George Wolfe>here, the thousands place is 4 times the hundredths place. <v George Wolfe>Now, that means I am going to put this is X or this <v George Wolfe>is X, right. The thousands place is 4 times the hundredths place. <v George Wolfe>That means this would be 4 X or this would be 4 X, depending on which <v George Wolfe>two choices we take, which of the two choices we take. <v George Wolfe>All right. Now we go to our second clue. <v George Wolfe>The sum of the numbers is 18. <v George Wolfe>Now, let's look at this first choice right here. <v George Wolfe>If this is 5 and this is 2, that's 7. <v George Wolfe>That means the total of X and 4 X has to be equal to <v George Wolfe>11 Y. Well, 5 and 2 is 7 and 11 is 18. <v George Wolfe>So watch Y, this is immediately going to be eliminated. <v George Wolfe>All right. If we say X and 4 X is equal to 11 X <v George Wolfe>plus 4 X equals 11. <v George Wolfe>Well, we're in trouble now. Why?

<v George Wolfe>Because 4 X and X is 5, X equals <v George Wolfe>11. There is no digit or there is no even answer <v George Wolfe>for for this problem because we come out to X equals 11 over <v George Wolfe>5. And there is no such digit that's gonna fit into this spot for X. <v George Wolfe>What that does then is it completely eliminates the choice of 5.2. <v George Wolfe>Well let's hope 5.3 works. <v George Wolfe>OK, well once again now we see 5, 3 X and 4 X. <v George Wolfe>These numbers have to add up to 18. <v George Wolfe>All right, Will 5 and 3 is 8. <v George Wolfe>That means X plus 4. X must equal 10, 10 and 8 are 18. <v George Wolfe>So here's what we do. <v George Wolfe>We say X plus 4 X equals what? <v George Wolfe>10. <v George Wolfe>5. X equals 10. <v George Wolfe>Therefore, X equals 2. <v George Wolfe>Well, let's see if this works. <v George Wolfe>We cross these di- these lines out and let's plug our numbers in 2. <v George Wolfe>And therefore, the thousands places 4 times the hundredths place.

<v George Wolfe>Now this should work. Let's see if it works. <v George Wolfe>The number rounds to 5.3 . <v George Wolfe>Well, sure enough. 5.3 . <v George Wolfe>You look to your right, That's a 2 that keeps this number is 5.3 . <v George Wolfe>The sum of the numbers is 18. <v George Wolfe>18 5 and 3 is 8 plus 2 is 10 plus 8 is 18. <v George Wolfe>And the thousands places 4 times the hundredth place. <v George Wolfe>So it just goes to show you sometimes if you try to look for another answer, you might <v George Wolfe>get it. Mary, thanks a lot for that problem. <v George Wolfe>That was a neat one. <v Gordon Dorway>Great <v George Wolfe>Back to you Gordon <v Gordon Dorway>You know, once again, we've shown that there's more than one way to answer math problems. <v Gordon Dorway>A number of methods that you can use to answer any number of problems. <v Gordon Dorway>Anyway, it's time for a nightly academic trivia test. <v Gordon Dorway>And we're looking for a description and a year for a world event. <v Gordon Dorway>And here are your 3 clues. <v George Wolfe>All right. Well, this argued for a new currency standard. <v Gordon Dorway>This was delivered by William Jennings Bryan. <v George Wolfe>And here is your last clue. This arose from conflict between farmers <v George Wolfe>and industry.

<v Gordon Dorway>If you think you know the name of this world event now, operators standing by to take <v Gordon Dorway>your call. The number is 4 to 454-6922. <v George Wolfe>And of course, the first correct caller will get to give the answer live on the <v George Wolfe>air. So good luck. <v Gordon Dorway>That's right. I'm not sure I know this answer. <v George Wolfe>Well, you know, that clue of this clearly eliminates a person. <v George Wolfe>And you know this guy, William Jennings, William Jennings Bryan. <v George Wolfe>He just keeps popping up in history all the time. <v George Wolfe>He was a great orator. He was an he was a lawyer. <v Gordon Dorway>I'm lost here. <v George Wolfe>Yeah, well, I don't know the answer either, but I at least heard of William Jennings <v George Wolfe>Bryan. <v Gordon Dorway>Well hopefully somebody will know the answer. <v George Wolfe>Yeah, I know some of those brainteaser guys out there are looking up right now. <v Gordon Dorway>Let's go to our next caller. Hello. <v Gordon Dorway>Hello. <v George Wolfe>I know you're out there. I hear you turnin your pages. <v Lamar>Hello. <v George Wolfe>Hey, there you are. <v Gordon Dorway>Hi. <v George Wolfe>What's your name? <v Lamar>Lamar <v George Wolfe>Hi, Lamar. How you doing tonight? And you go to Flower City Elementary School, don't you? <v George Wolfe>Yup. <v Gordon Dorway>And you're thr-. <v George Wolfe>Third grade? <v Gordon Dorway>Right. <v George Wolfe>We're both pretty psychic, you know. <v Gordon Dorway>[Laughs] It's the moon. <v George Wolfe>It's the moon. What's your question, Lamar? <v Lamar>Rounded to the nearest ten, this number is 50.

<v Lamar>If you add its digits you get 9 . <v Lamar>It is an even number. <v George Wolfe>Beautiful <v Gordon Dorway>Even- Even or? <v Lamar>Its odd. <v Gordon Dorway>Odd number, OK. Lamar, let me go to the board and I want you to give me those clues again <v Gordon Dorway>so I can try and write them down. We can discuss what the answer might be. <v Gordon Dorway>OK, Lamar? OK. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Let me see if I remember this. Right. <v Gordon Dorway>This number rounded to the nearest ten is 50? <v Lamar>Yup. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. So let's see, number rounded <v Gordon Dorway>to the nearest ten is 50. <v Gordon Dorway>That's our first clue. What's our second clue? <v Lamar>If you add its dig- digits. <v Gordon Dorway>Uh-huh add its digits, you get what? <v Lamar>You get 9. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Add digits, you get 9. <v Gordon Dorway>Add digits, you get 9 and what?. <v Lamar>It is, it's <v Gordon Dorway>It's an odd number.

<v Lamar>It's an odd number <v Gordon Dorway>OK. It's an odd number. <v Gordon Dorway>OK, Lamar. I'm going to need your help for this, OK? <v Gordon Dorway>All right. Now, I want you to try and tell me what numbers, <v Gordon Dorway>if you round them, will get you 50. <v Gordon Dorway>And remember, it's an odd number. <v Gordon Dorway>Do you know how to round? <v Lamar>Yes. <v Gordon Dorway>OK, let me see if you'd if I take 41 and I wanted to round <v Gordon Dorway>41 to the nearest ten. What would that round to? <v Lamar>40. <v Gordon Dorway>40. So you don't know how to round. OK. <v Gordon Dorway>Now I want you to tell me any numbers and we can start with something in the 40s <v Gordon Dorway>when we rounded to the nearest ten, we get 50. <v Gordon Dorway>Start with me. Give me a number that when you round to the nearest ten, you get 50 <v Lamar>46. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. How about 45? <v Gordon Dorway>Does that when you round that, do you get 50? <v Lamar>Yeah. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Now 46. Is that an odd number? <v Lamar>No. <v Gordon Dorway>No, it's not. So remember our third clue, it's an odd number, so we start with 45. <v Gordon Dorway>What comes after 45 that's an odd number? <v Lamar>47.

<v Gordon Dorway>47. Good. Continue. Go ahead. <v Lamar>48. <v Gordon Dorway>Ah- odd number. <v Lamar>49. <v Gordon Dorway>49. Give me another one. <v Lamar> 51. <v Gordon Dorway>51, because when you round 51, what do you get <v Lamar>50. <v Gordon Dorway>That's right. Give me another one. <v Lamar>53 . <v Gordon Dorway>53 . Give me another one. <v Lamar>58. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Now, 50- after 53 , let's see if we go to 55. <v Lamar>55 <v Gordon Dorway>if you round 55. What do you get? <v Lamar>60 <v Gordon Dorway>60, right. And remember, we've got around the number to get 50. <v Gordon Dorway>So 55 is too high so we can get rid of that. <v Gordon Dorway>So these are our possible choices. <v Gordon Dorway>Now, these are odd. If we round any of these numbers, we get 50. <v Gordon Dorway>But what's the second clue? Tell us. <v Lamar>Add digits to get 9. <v Gordon Dorway>OK, we got to add these digits to see if we get 9. <v Gordon Dorway>Well, let's start. What's 5 plus 3 ? <v Lamar>5 plus 3 is 8. <v Gordon Dorway>That doesn't work. What's 5 plus 1? <v Lamar>6 <v Gordon Dorway>That doesn't work. What's 4 plus 5? <v Lamar>9

<v Gordon Dorway>Ahh, 4 plus 5 gives us 9 . <v Gordon Dorway>You round it will get 50. And it's an odd number, 4 plus 7 doesn't work and 4 plus <v Gordon Dorway>9 doesn't work either. I think he hit on the right answer, Lamar <v Lamar>How come I wasn't on TV? <v Gordon Dorway>You are on TV. You're talking right now. <v Gordon Dorway>And I'm on TV also. We're both on TV. <v Lamar>Oh <v Gordon Dorway>Okay, Lamar? I wi- if you want to be a TV again tomorrow, you give us a call. <v Gordon Dorway>You know the number. <v Lamar>OK. Thank you. <v Gordon Dorway>Thank you. Bye bye. Back to you, George. <v George Wolfe>And not only that, Lamar, you're world famous now. <v George Wolfe>Now, you know, you guys may have been noticing Gordon and I talking a lot this week about <v George Wolfe>obviously what's going on in the news with Somalia. <v George Wolfe>And if you've been listening to the news on the radio, you certainly don't have to guess <v George Wolfe>what our top story this week is going to be. <v George Wolfe>You know, the events in Somalia lead our hotline headlines and an unusually humorous <v George Wolfe>event at the White House. We'll complete tonight's look at what's going on around the <v George Wolfe>world. Humorous. [Hip hop music playing] <v News Reporter>Leading our version of the news this week is the start of a ?mercy?

<v News Reporter>mission to Somalia. We told you last week about President George Bush's <v News Reporter>decision to send troops to protect supply routes and deliver aid to the Somalians. <v News Reporter>U.S. soldiers will lead a joint United Nations task force with France, Canada, <v News Reporter>Egypt, Italy and other member nations. <v News Reporter>Taking part in the first wave of troops came ashore yesterday to secure the port <v News Reporter>and airfield of the capital city of Mogadishu. <v News Reporter>This is the first step in safeguarding the desperately needed food and medical supplies. <v News Reporter>300,000 people have died in the past year due to the drought and clan warfare in <v News Reporter>Somalia. The U.N. hopes to feed the starving and stop the fighting. <v News Reporter>This is the largest military operation the U.S. <v News Reporter>has mounted since last year's Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait. <v News Reporter>But the Somali mission is different in one important way. <v News Reporter>The object is to help people, not fight them. <v News Reporter>Usually there is a military, political or economic reason for a U.S. <v News Reporter>president to send our military to foreign countries. <v News Reporter>But this time, the only reason is humanitarian to help feed and protect starving

<v News Reporter>Somalians. It's part of the retooling of the U.S. <v News Reporter>armed forces since the end of the Cold War and the dissolving of the Soviet Union <v News Reporter>with no potential enemy to fight. The troops can be used in relief and civil defense <v News Reporter>situations like the recent Hurricane Hugo. <v News Reporter>But the U.N. relief force may unintentionally harm those they've been trying to help. <v News Reporter>Since the 1800s European countries have tried to control <v News Reporter>Somalia and other African countries as their colonies since World War <v News Reporter>2, the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed with each other to influence African countries <v News Reporter>like Somalia and Ethiopia. <v News Reporter>When the Soviet Union ended, both the Russians and Americans withdrew their financial <v News Reporter>support and as a result, these countries fell apart. <v News Reporter>Now the United States and its allies may find they'll have to rebuild a Somali government <v News Reporter>to get the country running again. <v News Reporter>That support may not be able to be withdrawn as quickly as the U.N. <v News Reporter>would like. Somalia may still be in trouble after the U.N. <v News Reporter>mission has ended and the troops have gone home. <v News Reporter>And finally, after a disappointing year, outgoing President George Bush has some things

<v News Reporter>he can feel good about. The Somali mission returns some prestige. <v News Reporter>And he was also able to set aside his serious job this week and enjoy himself, <v News Reporter>at least for one day. Saturday Night Live and Wayne's World star Dana Carvey <v News Reporter>visited the White House Christmas party to entertain and offer tips on how to impersonate <v News Reporter>the president. <v Dana Carvey>The way to the president is to start out with Mr. Rogers. <v Dana Carvey>"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." [Laughter] Then you add a little John Wayne <v Dana Carvey>here. "?Well yeah,? let's go over the ranch." You put them together. <v Dana Carvey>You got George Herbert Walker Bush. That's the thing there [Applause] <v Dana Carvey>Now, now I did use the hand, the hand there's a lot of hands with the president using a <v Dana Carvey>lot of different gestures that, you know, the first one I noticed was sort of the <v Dana Carvey>hitchhiker, this one, those people down over there. <v Dana Carvey>[Laughter] And then there's two 6 guns up here and that thing. <v Dana Carvey>[Laughter] Then the wandering index that fella down there. <v Dana Carvey>[Laughter] Put them together.

<v Dana Carvey>Then the steeple. [Laughter] Ya kinda got <v News Reporter>It was an unusual event, since Carvey has earned his living by making fun of George <v News Reporter>Bush. Bush admitted that he enjoyed the jokes. <v News Reporter>[Hip hop music playing] <v George Wolfe>You, uh do any imitations? <v Gordon Dorway>Actually, funny, you should ask that questions,George. <v George Wolfe>Funny?. <v Gordon Dorway>I do a great imitation of a science high school teacher. <v Gordon Dorway>Oh, do you? I do. Well, let's see it. I've been doing it all day. <v George Wolfe>Oh, you're doing it your whole life. <v George Wolfe>Well, I think we've got a brainteaser winner on the line, let's see if he's there. <v George Wolfe>Hello? <v Peter Endres>Hello <v Gordon Dorway>Hi. What's your name? <v Peter Endres>Peter Endres. <v Gordon Dorway>Hi, Peter. We talked to you earlier this week, didn't we? <v Peter Endres>Um <v Gordon Dorway>Or was it last week? <v Peter Endres>Last week. <v Gordon Dorway>How are you doing today, Peter? <v Peter Endres>Good. <v Gordon Dorway>And what school do you go to? <v Peter Endres>Uh, Sodus Intermediate. <v Gordon Dorway>And you're in grade?

<v Peter Endres>6. <v George Wolfe>Oh. Now Gordon is doing an imitation of a TV host. <v George Wolfe>What's the answer, Peter, for today's brainteaser? <v Peter Endres>Uh, it's the Cross of Gold speech. <v Peter Endres>And it took place in 1896. <v George Wolfe>Cross of Gold, speech. Very famous speech by William Jennings Bryan. <v Gordon Dorway>And this was to do what? <v Gordon Dorway>Do you know what it was about? <v Peter Endres>Switch to the gold. <v Gordon Dorway>Gold standard, right? <v George Wolfe>That's right. Didn't he say something about I don't want to be crucified on a cross of <v George Wolfe>gold in that speech. <v Peter Endres>Yeah <v George Wolfe>Do you know that? Is that what he said? <v Peter Endres>Yeah. <v Gordon Dorway>That's why it's called, I guess, the Cross of Gold speech. <v George Wolfe>Yes and it was apparently a very famous speech. <v George Wolfe>Now, how did you find that out? <v Peter Endres>Well, my brother told me to look it up and while I was di- dialing it, <v Peter Endres>I've looked it up real fast. <v Gordon Dorway>Great. Congratulations to your brother for not giving you the answer. <v George Wolfe>Really <v Gordon Dorway>That's excellent. And if any parents are watching that, I hope they're learning a lesson <v Gordon Dorway>that sometimes it's better to teach somebody how to look something right rather than to <v Gordon Dorway>give them the answer. <v Gordon Dorway>Well, Peter, thanks for the answer. You know, keep up the good work. <v Gordon Dorway>You only got a couple more weeks before the brainteaser challenge is over. <v Peter Endres>OK. <v George Wolfe>And then we put your name in on the new one.

<v Gordon Dorway>That's right. <v Peter Endres>OK. <v George Wolfe>Take care. <v Peter Endres>Bye. <v George Wolfe>Bye-Bye. Let's do a call shall we? <v Gordon Dorway>OK. <v George Wolfe>Hello? <v Darnell Fontaine>Hello. <v George Wolfe>Hi <v Darnell Fontaine>My name is Darnell. <v George Wolfe>Hi, Darnell. <v Darnell Fontaine>Yeah, and I need help on this problem. <v George Wolfe>OK. Why don't read the problem to us? <v Darnell Fontaine>It's blank seconds is equals 6 minutes. <v George Wolfe>OK, let me go to the board. All right. <v George Wolfe>And let's. Let's talk about these. <v George Wolfe>So you've got you're converting, aren't you? <v George Wolfe>This is something that's very important to do in science and math. <v George Wolfe>You're gonna be doing this for years. <v Darnell Fontaine>Units in time <v George Wolfe>There you go. Blank seconds equals how many minutes? <v Darnell Fontaine>6 minutes. <v George Wolfe>6 minutes. You know how to do this? <v Darnell Fontaine>Yes <v George Wolfe>OK. Look, let's. How are you going to do it? <v George Wolfe>Help me teach this thing. Go ahead. <v Darnell Fontaine>I think you got to put it 6 minutes. <v Darnell Fontaine>They want you to put 6 seconds. <v George Wolfe>6 seconds. Is that what you said? Yes. <v George Wolfe>Now, are you telling me then that 6 seconds is the same as 6 minutes? <v Darnell Fontaine>No. <v George Wolfe>No. OK. What do I do? <v Darnell Fontaine>It's 6 minutes, 6 seconds on the clock.

<v George Wolfe>6 seconds on the clock? You go ahead <v Darnell Fontaine>And then, then it equals 6 minutes. <v George Wolfe>All right. I see what you're doing. Watch that 6. <v George Wolfe>You're getting your 6s mixed up here. I'll draw a clock for you. <v George Wolfe>I'm a good artist. How's that? That's a clock. <v George Wolfe>Now it's missing some things. Right. But this clock is, you know, has. <v George Wolfe>Let's write it instead of ours. Let's write it in. <v George Wolfe>And let's make this one like. <v George Wolfe>All right. How we gonna do this? Let's make this a minute clock. <v George Wolfe>OK. So if you go all the way around the clock, you're gonna go one <v George Wolfe>full minute. OK. <v George Wolfe>All right. Now, if I were gonna divide this up into seconds, how <v George Wolfe>many seconds would I have in that clock? <v George Wolfe>Do you know how many seconds are in one minute. <v Darnell Fontaine>Oh. <v Darnell Fontaine>3 . <v George Wolfe>Careful. How many seconds in one minute? <v Darnell Fontaine>60. <v George Wolfe>Very good. OK. So I'm gonna write that down. <v George Wolfe>60 seconds equals 1 minute.

<v George Wolfe>OK. Now before we go any further, let me stop and make sure you're OK. <v George Wolfe>Do you know how to do this yet? Because we've got to get rid of that six. <v George Wolfe>Good. When you say 6 seconds, we're going to abandon that. <v George Wolfe>What should I do next? Do you know? <v Darnell Fontaine>I think you should multiply. <v George Wolfe>Good. Because what am I going to multiply? <v Darnell Fontaine>6 times 60. <v George Wolfe>Beautiful. And here's why. <v George Wolfe>If you think about it. If I said to you, if you had two minutes, you would just multiply <v George Wolfe>this times two right here and you get 120 or 3 minutes, you'd get 180. <v George Wolfe>But you're smart. You're saying, aha. <v George Wolfe>It's 6 minutes. So I'm going to multiply 6 <v George Wolfe>times that. <v Darnell Fontaine>6 is 360. <v George Wolfe>Beautiful. So that's our answer. There are 360 seconds <v George Wolfe>in 6 minutes. <v George Wolfe>OK. Darnell, you got any others you want to do? <v Darnell Fontaine>Um no, that's it <v George Wolfe>Let me give you one that then. Alright?

<v George Wolfe>How are you in hours and days? <v Darnell Fontaine>How many hours? 24 <v George Wolfe>All right, good. Now let's try one then. How many hours <v George Wolfe>equals 5 days? <v George Wolfe>How you gonna do this one guy? <v George Wolfe>It's my best one. See if you can get me. <v Darnell Fontaine>24 what you said? <v George Wolfe>Go ahead, 24 hours equals one day. <v George Wolfe>Go ahead. What are we going to do next? <v Darnell Fontaine>Times it. <v George Wolfe>Times what? <v Darnell Fontaine>By 2 <v George Wolfe>Why, where'd would you get the number 2? [Darnell answers inaudibly] How many days am I <v George Wolfe>talking about? A day. <v George Wolfe>How many days? Can you see it on TV? <v George Wolfe>Oh, OK. I said, how many hours in 5 days. <v George Wolfe>So what are you going to times 24 times <v Darnell Fontaine>60. <v George Wolfe>Whoop. Careful. How many days. <v Darnell Fontaine>5 <v George Wolfe>5 days. So what are you going to multiply 24 times? <v Darnell Fontaine>5 <v George Wolfe>There you go. So let's try that. <v George Wolfe>OK, times 5 days.

<v George Wolfe>All right. <v Darnell Fontaine>120 <v George Wolfe>Whoa, you're fast. All right. 5 times 4 is 20, 5, 10 <v George Wolfe>add 2, 120 hours. <v George Wolfe>So just think from Monday to Friday. <v George Wolfe>You live 120 hours. <v George Wolfe>Now, if you really want a challenging question, figure out how many seconds that is. <v George Wolfe>But I'm not going to do that now because we'll be here for a while. <v George Wolfe>All right, Darnell. Thanks for calling. <v Darnell Fontaine>Ok <v George Wolfe>OK, bye bye. <v Gordon Dorway>OK, tis two weeks before Christmas and all around here, lots of creatures are stirring in <v Gordon Dorway>search of good cheer. So we drew up a list of things you can do. <v Gordon Dorway>So pay close attention. This calenders for you. <v Gordon Dorway>[Song: Never Can Say Goodbye] <v George Wolfe>And we're back. Gordon, that poem was so bad.

<v George Wolfe>It made our audience sad <v Gordon Dorway>Oh, gosh, let me go to our next caller. <v Gordon Dorway>Hello? <v Nicole Scott>Hello. <v Gordon Dorway>Hi. What's your name? <v Nicole Scott>It's Nicole Scott. <v Gordon Dorway>Hi, Nicole. And you're at School #28? <v Nicole Scott>Yeah. <v Gordon Dorway>And you're in fifth grade, right? <v Nicole Scott>Yeah <v George Wolfe>What are you doing tonight, Nicole? <v Nicole Scott>Multiplication. <v Gordon Dorway>OK, let me go to the boy. I'll see if I can give you a hand. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Nicole, what's the problem? <v Nicole Scott>4,175. <v Gordon Dorway>Oh, my goodness. 4,175 <v Nicole Scott>Times 568. <v Gordon Dorway>Now, if we don't get chance to finish this, I want you to work on this on your own. <v Gordon Dorway>How do we start? <v Nicole Scott>With the 8 and the 5. <v Gordon Dorway>Good. With 8 and a 5. What's 8 times 5. <v Nicole Scott>40. <v Gordon Dorway>40. What do we do with the 4? <v Nicole Scott>Put it over the 7. <v Gordon Dorway>Put it over the 7. Very good. <v Gordon Dorway>8 times 7. <v Nicole Scott>56. <v Gordon Dorway>56. Plus the 4. <v Nicole Scott>60 <v Gordon Dorway>60. Another 0. <v Gordon Dorway>What do we do, the 6? <v Nicole Scott>Put it over the 1.

<v Gordon Dorway>Good. 8 times? <v Nicole Scott>8 <v Gordon Dorway>8 times the 1, we stil got the 1 to multiply by, which is 8. <v Gordon Dorway>And then what do we do with that to the 6? <v Nicole Scott>14. <v Gordon Dorway>OK. 14. Carry the ones 8 times 4. <v Nicole Scott>24. <v Gordon Dorway>Ahh, 8 times 4? <v Nicole Scott>32 <v Gordon Dorway>32. Good. Plus the 1 <v Nicole Scott>33 <v Gordon Dorway>33. OK, Nicole, I think you're pretty much on track. <v Gordon Dorway>You know what you have to do for the rest of this problem? <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Now you remember you did the first line. <v Gordon Dorway>You had to put a number down the hole you space, and then you've got to multiply by 6 <v Gordon Dorway>times 5, 6 times 7, 6 times 1 and 6 times 4. <v Gordon Dorway>Write down all the answers. And when you're done, that's that you've got to put two <v Gordon Dorway>zeroes down to hold your space and then multiply by the 5. <v Gordon Dorway>Now, if you get stuck, you give us a call back at Homework Hotline cause there will be <v Gordon Dorway>there to take a call. OK, Nicole? <v Nicole Scott>OK <v Gordon Dorway>OK. Bye bye. <v George Wolfe>All right. Well, you know, so you might have questions you think that Gordon and I can't <v George Wolfe>answer and sometimes you can't get em on the air on the phone so you can send us these

<v George Wolfe>questions, call em a stump question, send it on a piece of paper with the answer <v George Wolfe>and your phone number so we can contact you and send it to Homework Hotline, P.O. <v George Wolfe>Box 21, Rochester, New York, 14601 <v Gordon Dorway>And remember, if you have any problems with homework, science, math or whatever subject <v Gordon Dorway>matter, give us a call at Dial a Teacher 262-5000, Monday through Thursday, <v Gordon Dorway>4 to 7 p.m.. <v George Wolfe>And I got to tell you, Gordon, you you've amazed us tonight. <v George Wolfe>You've brought in special effects. <v George Wolfe>You've made poetry. <v Gordon Dorway>Well, George, I'm a well rounded kind of guy. <v George Wolfe>You are well-rounded. And I don't mean in this stunning sense. <v George Wolfe>I certainly mean in the Renaissance way. <v Gordon Dorway>I want to get out here so I can go watch the rest of this lunar eclipse <v George Wolfe>As it goes away <v Gordon Dorway>Yeah, bye bye. <v George Wolfe>Bye bye [Hip <v George Wolfe>hop song playing]