I remember when I was in high school I hated doing word problems - TopicsExpress



          

I remember when I was in high school I hated doing word problems in math class and would say things like Ill never use this after high school. I am officially retracting this statement. My manager asked me to measure several oil tank volumes for inventory today and told me to stick a yellow colored measuring tape in the tank and read the oil mark. Reading nearly clear new oil on a yellow colored measuring tape is ludicrously difficult and sloppy. So I told him it would be much cleaner and more accurate to record the total height of the tank, shine a flashlight into the tank, dip the tape measure in until it just touched the surface of the oil in the tank, and measure the depth to the oil from the top of the tank, and subtract it from the total height of the tank, which would give you the inverse measurement which would equal the oil level as measured from the bottom bottom of the tank. After about 10 seconds, the EUREKA! look on his face was priceless...
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:29:26 +0000

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