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I was put through the ringer on Louis Leithold "Calculus, with analytic, geometry". Heavy heavy book.

"Do the exercises" teacher echoed over and over. I read the chapter, I followed the examples and proceed to the first problem in the unit.

My answer was 64

I go to the end of the book and the answer was 2 1/4

I would try to reverse engineer the 2 and 1/4 to original problem... Nothing!

I would ask a friend to the problem with me.. her answer was 16.

Maybe divide by 8? that gets us 2, we are closer? Right. Why divide by 8? I don't know!

Back in the there was no Internet or Kahn Academy. It was you and the red heavy book of Calculus with the desk lamp staring at you. Silently.



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