Ask Joe Column #6

TragicRomance: Okay, sounds to me like perhaps he wanted to move on. Two years is a long time, but at the age of 17, (in my opinion) it doesn't mean a whole lot. At such a young age, you have your whole life ahead of you, so theoretically speaking you can expect to have a few relationships before you find, "the one."

It isn't your fault, I believe he is in fault if he was cheating on you while in a relationship for over two years.

Relationships come and go expecially during the teen years. And the main reasoning behind that is, "Experimentation" Teenagers want to experiment with different people, they want to "explore" the world of women or vise versa depending on the sex.

How are you joe?

JOE! hey how are you?
I feel lost. Truly. Now some peoples opinion of lost can be perceived as emo, cut myself, dark, dont smile, burn in the sun kind of stuff but thats a vampire who burns in the sun and trust me Im not a vampire. I can have my good days; school wasnt too bad, got all of my homework done, blah, blah, BLAH. I feel lost when I feel inside myself and I feel alone. Sad, yes, but not really depressed. Its times that I have to think inside my head that I really feel the crumbling domains of my protective walls completely shatter. I never really noticed it before but I can always feel it. Just sometimes the human contact contains it temporarily. It is a really weird feeling that makes me question my sanity. Like, in the future will I be in the psycho house and look back on these workshop writings to find out that I was in the midst of becoming crazy and documenting it all unaware of my wearing down sanity? Will I have these and be able to know what it feels like to become insane? Or am I already insane just locked inside waiting till my insanity breaks down the exterior of my brain? And these feelings.. they haven't been there forever, I dont think, but they have been there long enough, their sickening. I dont know how to get rid of it. Im sick of trying to ignore it. It hurts internally and makes me feel out of place all the time. Are they little tastes of the real thing to come? Is this the feeling that alcoholics feel when their sucking down that last little drop of vodka with every intention of filling up their own personal death defying hole?

thats a thing i wrote for school.. what do you think? do you like it?

Justanotherdamagedscene: Hi, I am doing good, thanks for asking. Been kind of tired lately though, I goto 2 colleges and have 2 fulltime Jobs.

You Kill Me: Hey, I'm doing good, just read the post above this one...lol

Well, it is deff. an interesting write, made me ponder on a few subjects myself. I liked your wording and use of vocab in some areas, and vise versa. So, yes I like it to a certain extent I guess you could say. Do I like the meaning behind it all, ahhh not really, it is depressing to think of that kind of stuff...

Umm yeah thats how i feel lol so i guess i got to where i was going at lol so um do you remember me from awhile ago?

You Kill Me: Yes, I remember you. You were one of the first people to ask a question on my original thread.

Yeah =] thats me.. Obviously this is working out for you lol your on your 6th

So Joe, could you explain to me in a simple way how to do the substitution, elimination, and graphing solutions in Algebra? Nobody else can so I figured you might be able to. haha

Austin:

Ok here is an example for substitution:

Equation 1: 3y+x = 8

Equation 2: 5y-4x = 2

Equation 1 looks like it would be simple to solve for x, as a result we take it and separate x from the equation like so:

3y+x = 8

Equation 3: x = 8-3y

Now we are able to use this end result and replace x in for 3-2y in equation 2:

5y-4x = 2
5y-4(8-3y) = 2
5y-32+12y = 2
17y-32 = 2
17y = 34
y = 2

Now that we have y, we still need to substitute back in to obtain x. We can substitute back into any of the previous equations, but be aware that equation 3 was previously solved for x:

x = 8-3y
x = 8-3(2)
x = 8-6
x = 2

So the solution is (2, 2).

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Here is an example of Elimination:

3x - 2y = 10, 2x + 2y = 15

Equation 1: 3x - 2y = 10

Equation 2: 2x + 2y= 15

Now add equation 1 to equation 2.

(3x - 2y) + (2x + 2y) = 10 + 15

When this is finished, the terms in y cancel out and we are left with x.

(3x - y) + (2x + y) = 10 + 15

5x = 25

x = 5

Substitute x = 5 into equation 1:

3(5) - y = 10

15 - y = 10

y = 5

The solution is x = 5 and y = 5

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As far as Graphing Solutions, I'm afraid that is fairly hard to explain via a description without an actually visualization/image infrot of you.

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I hope that was clear enough for you, best of luck.

Haha Thanks, it helped me with the homework a good bit. =D