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    Parts Produced Vs Total Downtime

    Parts Produced Vs Total Downtime - Graphical Interpretation Hi all! I'm working on a project analyzing downtime for a manufacturing floor. The department makes between 6 and 8 millions parts per month with 10-18 thousand minutes of unplanned downtime collectively (changeovers, maintenance...
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    Building a Scale for Spaghetti Bridge Contest - Help Needed

    I figured out my own problem. I plotted my data with the strain on the Y-axis not the X-axis as I needed. Once I did that I was able to figure out the slope (3.357 in my case) and then multiply the strain by the slope which will give me my weight. Simple algebra gets you sometimes. ;)...
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    Building a Scale for Spaghetti Bridge Contest - Help Needed

    Hello All, I'm currently working on a project to help with a local spaghetti bridge contest. I'm trying to build a scale of sorts from a plate that is supported at each end. Picture a bracket "[" but with the two legs on the ground. I'm using strain gages on the bottom in the shape of...
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    Min Cost Of A Can Using Calculus

    we're at a stand still... we're going in tomorrow with hardly anything... i guess another couple of guys got a diameter of 22 inches?? which is huge! and also a thickness of .25 inches. I guess if the cost numbers are correct it makes sense... i just would like to see the function used... (we...
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    Min Cost Of A Can Using Calculus

    Thank you, we are going to try this. The C parts are some equation that some other kid was using somehow and asked the professor who said he was "on the right track". We are still a bit confused but we are using Derive to do this project to hopefully have less stress and potential error on our...
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    Min Cost Of A Can Using Calculus

    Hello, I'm in an applied calculus class and we just received a project that my group is having some small issues with. We have find the minimum cost of a tin can using calculus. From the text, " You must design a cylindrical tin can which is to hold 100 cubic inches of material. The tin...
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