Man, this economy keeps getting worse. Now I have to rewrite last year’s warm-up questions:
Most Santa Cruz houses are more expensive now than they were a decade ago. A $450,000 house with three bedrooms, a pool, and a monkey butler, increased to $1,000,000. What was its percent increase?
This one is actually pretty easy to adjust.
6 Comments
sylvia martinez
December 11, 2008 - 4:47 pm -Does the monkey butler get unemployment?
dan
December 11, 2008 - 5:30 pm -The monkey butler is eaten.
Todd
December 13, 2008 - 10:35 am -Do you allow or even supply calculators to your Algebra students for these kind of questions?
What is your view of the role that calculator use plays with regard to student development of number sense, especially integer operations?
Cory
December 18, 2008 - 10:55 am -Does anyone else get bored on test days?
I teach the same geometry course, lack 2 periods, all day. It’s boring during test days.
BLAH>>>
A. Mercer
December 23, 2008 - 6:14 pm -Hey, why not have the kids rewrite risk assessment models for loans, and see what happens when you inflate the LTV and relative to the Debt to Income Ratio? Oh, I guess most mortgage lenders have already tried that tried that.
Kevin
January 3, 2009 - 2:32 pm -You might want to get the Zillow graphs showing the price of Santa Cruz housing over the past decade. Unfortunately, the Zillow people are too innumerate (or think their readers are) to use a log scale for the y-axis, but the graphs are still a nice addition to the question. They also point out that the recent “crash” in housing prices only dropped the prices back about 4 years, just chopping off the bubble, not the steady rise in housing prices.