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Originally Posted by buffa98
Any help is better than none. I was one of the oldests one in the test session. Two guys older and nine kids fresh out of college and engineering school. That made for a couple of interesting conversations. A couple of them had never done simple word problems before without a calculator. 
There were several circle, circumferance, and radius calc that brought their minds to a screaching halt!! Those ones made me feel a whole lot better. Right up until they said oh you just had to due opposie over ajacent blah blah blah. |
I've never used calculus and have forgotten how to do it, but I can sorta explain what it is.
However, I use algebra all the time, and trigonometry semi often. It's a very useful tool in building.
Wait, those guys made it through engineering school and had trouble with (I'm guessing) relatively simple problems involving circles? Whoa . . .