not as easy as it looks

i decided to start my homework last night. mind you that it isn't due until sept 14th. this is pretty good of me. i usually procrastinate more. but i knew there were a lot of problems to be done and i didn't understand the lecture at all, so the homework would be difficult.

boy was it difficult! i got to problem 11 and i needed the 8th root of a number. like any calculator does that! after some searching and multiple tries i found out that if you use the inverse (1/8) as the exponent it does the same exact thing! who knew!

then i moved onto the 12th problem. i looked at it and read it at least a million times. i didn't know what i needed to do. i picked out one equation, then decided against it. i figured out a figure by using another equation, but i was supposed to insert it into another equation. but looking at my original work i questioned if i even needed to. but then i realized that i had used the incorrect interest rate. holy mother! i didn't think it would be this hard!!! good thing i started early!

it doesn't help that i don't have my fancy calculator, or the book that would keep me from doing all of this hard math.