shann

oh my! i'm a mature student, we didn't have this math when i went to school, alot of that looked like a foreign language to me. Still, thank you for your help!

Hey!!! I'm a second year student, just starting an Atmospheric Science course/lab duo. My Instructor for our lectures is amazing, but the on for our lab is God awful! She reads our manual to us and doesn't explain why things "are", even when prodded by student questioning. Anyways, she recited a formula, told us it was in our lab manual, which- it isn't!- and she didn't explain where the numbers came from. I'm going to post a picture of the question and data below to perhaps communicate better, the problem. THANK YOU FOR HELPING!!! Here is the data, Here it is specifically for the example problem: This is the equation given to us, I don’t understand where the three comes from. Is it 3km less 0km equals 3, is it the number of units to get from 0 to 3km I just need to know how/why she arrived at 3 being the height so that I can do the following equations. Because the way I see it, it has to be 5 for the first answer (the height, not the answer to the entire problem), but the second could be 5 or ten, and the next, 10 or twenty, etc. Please help Shann