Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
There are about 2.54 cm in an inch. You have a half inch bolt. Which metric wrench should you try first? That's algebra.Pipefitters do all that fancy piping you see in anything from factories to nuclear plants. Plumbers do pipes in residential and commercial settings. Both require pretty good math skills and the ability to read specs and blue prints if one is good at their trade. If they don't have the math skills they are very likely to read blue prints off or backwards. We had a three million dollar facility where the prime did the backwards grades. Talk about a mess everything ran into the vents instead of the floor drains. Also if a contractor has the skills they be more likely to see mistakes that are made in the blue prints.Even pipefitters use Algebra and simple Algebra isn't all to hard to learn if taught correctly.
Isn't it more experience and building codes that determine the size, length, and slope of pipe?
Even good carpenters use Algebra. Mechanics even can apply Algebra in their trade. I can't think of too many trades where a good qualified person doesn't need to have fairly decent math skills which include at least the basics of Algebra.
Give an example of how carpenters and mechanics use algebra.
You are framing a house. You need to by boards for the studs for a wall. The wall is 16 feet long, and the studs are at every 16inches. How many boards do you need? That's algebra.
There are about 2.54 cm in an inch. You have a half inch bolt. Which metric wrench should you try first? That's algebra.
The one on top? Seriously? The 1/2 inch wrench.
You are framing a house. You need to by boards for the studs for a wall. The wall is 16 feet long, and the studs are at every 16inches. How many boards do you need? That's algebra.
For a 2400 sq/ft single story you need five pallets.
Someone stole your 1/2 inch wrench and all you have is a metric set.
How did you arrive at the figure of 5 pallets, which makes no sense anyway?