Self-tutoring about consumer education: the tutor looks up the meaning of VOC. VOC (noun): Volatile Organic Compound. Such a compound evaporates readily at room temperature. Therefore, if poisonous, it can produce dangerous fumes while opened, during application, and while drying.…
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Lifestyle, mobile phones: phone cases
Perhaps lifestyle requires more tutoring than anything else – for me, anyway. The tutor relays his experience phone case shopping. Yesterday I got schooled on how to buy phone cases. I’m interested to share what I’ve learned. We bought my…
Lifestyle: nutella®: mixed emotions
Monitoring nutrition involves constant self-tutoring. The tutor reflects about nutella®. I first encountered nutella® (spelled lower-case on the jar, so I’ve spelled it the same) decades ago. I had a Dutch girlfriend who ate it; I never liked it. (She…
Financial math: can time be negative?
The tutor answers a question that brought someone to his site. These days, Oracle Tutoring gets between 5000 and 6000 distinct visitors per month. Looking over the raw log entries of how some visitors arrived, I saw an inquiry yesterday…
Solar energy: price per Watt
Jack
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The tutor continues from his last post about the value of solar energy dollars. In my last post I discussed the Wattage one might expect from solar energy for $100. Based on a graph from Scientific American, the equation for…
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Financial math: ordinary annuity versus annuity due
Jack
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The tutor continues exploring annuities. In my previous post I introduced the idea of an annuity with an example. That example had each payment at month’s-end; hence, it was an ordinary annuity. With an annuity due, the payment is…
Financial math: annuities, part I
Financial math awaits many students. The tutor introduces annuities. From the point of view of a typical consumer, an annuity is the reverse of a loan. The consumer becomes the lender, while the institution pays them back, often with monthly…
Financial math: interest rate conversions on the HP-10B
Jack
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A lifetime ago, the tutor studied financial planning. That’s when he got acquainted with the HP-10B. Of the financial calculators I know, the Hewlett-Packard HP-10B is potentially the easiest to use. One feature of particular value to anyone in financial…
Consumer Education: the Consumer Price Index
Jack
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When the tutor was in high school, a course called Consumer Education was mandatory. The beautiful, energetic high school students of today will, sooner or later, be workers. They will gain one kind of freedom at the expense of another.…
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