Sunday, April 1, 2007

The Problem Book-1


1.) The uncle of W.D. Fard lived in the wilderness of North America and he lived other than his own self, therefore, his pulse beat seventy-eight times per minute and this killed him in forty-five years of age. How many times did his pulse beat in forty-five years?

5 comments:

Kofi said...

Well...assuming that there are exactly 24 hours in any given day, and not taking into account leap years, and finally with the information given let's say he died the second he turned 45 the answer to the question is
1,726,596,000

loyal_worker said...

Well I would have to say your mathmatics are a bit off. Lets go threw step by step. Staring with the information provided Pulse 78 BPR(beats per minute or just B) 45Y(years) Ok we all know there are 60 mins in an hour so

60*78=4,680 So now we have BPH(beats per hour=4,680)

Going on 24 hours in a day right so 24*4,680=112,320BPD(Beats per day=112,320)

365 days in a year right so 365*112,320=40,996,800BPY

Ok now were almost there so if he had 40,996,800 pulse beats per year there is only one thing left to do multiply the BPY times 45.

So 45*40,996,800=1,844,856,000. So that should be a bit more accurate then the previous post.

Oh yeah lets just say he witnessed about 11 leap years because he was 45, a leap year comes every 4 years so its either 10 or 11. Lets just say 11 if that were true then he would have had 1,844,871,840 Pulses in a life time, because of the 11 more days added onto his life.

shoKhan Cheong said...

shoKhan C: interesting searches about this problem and inferences as to why we haven't advanced at the same rate of our counterpart nations and/or our oppressors both near and far.

i barely understood the links below, but is it imperative that we know these advances for our own advancement as a nation?

http://math.arizona.edu/~maw1999/blood/rate.html

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/longevity.htm

http://www.blurtit.com/q133776.html

http://www.math.niu.edu/~kong/360/014.pdf

http://www.smm.org/heart/lessons/lesson2.htm

ABSA said...

Their is absolutely no way to determine that. You would need to know the persons heart rate at every second, from the moment he was conceived, until the last heart beat. No persons heart rate beats at the same exact rate constantly for life.

Yusuf said...

ANSWER:
His pulse beat 1,846,119,600 times in forty-five years.

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PROOF:
[Using the following rules:]
60 minutes = 1 hour
24 hours = 1 day
365.25 days = 1 year

78 bpm x 60 minutes = 4,680 beats per hour;
4,680 x 24 hours = 112,320 beats per day;
112,320 x 365.25 days = 41,024,880 beats per year;
41,024,880 x 45 years = 1,846,119,600 times.
(One billion, eight-hundred forty-six million, one hundred nineteen thousand, six hundred times.)

*Notes: Since we are calculating for several years, it is important to account for leap years; hence, 365.25 days.
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