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This is in honor of Jennifer Silverman, the journalism student who got a
court injunction to allow her to attend Univerity of Houston without
passing the math portion of the TASP due to 'Dyscalcula', a math learning
disorder.
  Jennifer said, "What's the relevance of me being able to calculate the
slope of a triangle if what I want to do is feature writing?"

  Besides the fact that she doesn't talk English good, :)  Here is a sample
journalism problem for math students everywhere:

  Your editor asks for a two page magazine story.  Assuming each page is
8.5 inches wide by 11 inches high, and there is a 1/2 inch margin on each
side of the page, and a half inch margin at the top and bottom of the page.
(Assume that page numbers and magazine title etc. will appear in the
margin at the bottom.)  Now, each page has three columns, and each column
is 2 3/8 inches wide (2.375 in.).  You will have to now calculate the gap
between each column.  Now, there are seven lines per inch of length.
Finally, the first page of your story will have an extra one inch margin at
the top for your title.

Part a)
  Using this information, calculate the number of one column wide lines you
will have to write (i.e. if the story was one column wide, how many lines
long would the article be?).

Part b)
  You decide to insert a picture into your story.  The original picture is
8 in. wide by 10 in. tall.  By what percentage will you have to reduce the
photo so that it will be only as wide as two columns (and the gap in between
the two columns)?  Now, how many one-column lines long will your story be?

Part c)
  If the 8 x 10 picture was 10 in. wide and 10 in. tall, by what percentage
would you have to reduce it to fit across two columns?  How many lines long
is the story now?


  Another question could be: how would it affect the story length if instead
of three columns wide, each page was four columns wide with each column
1.75 in. wide?


Hope you liked it.  :)

david johnston
DEJ8015@rigel.tamu.edu