{"id":4,"date":"2015-01-06T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/?p=4"},"modified":"2015-03-18T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:41:59","slug":"extrapolation-comic-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/2015\/01\/06\/extrapolation-comic-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"Extrapolation Comic Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few comic strips dealing with extrapolation.\u00a0 Each is accompanied by a question I would ask students about the strip.<\/p>\n<p>1) Explain this comic strip using knowledge from the course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/XKCD-HobbyExtrapolating.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/XKCD-HobbyExtrapolating-300x191.png\" alt=\"XKCD-HobbyExtrapolating\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/XKCD-HobbyExtrapolating-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/01\/XKCD-HobbyExtrapolating.png 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(This strip is by Randall Munroe and can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/605\/\">http:\/\/xkcd.com\/605\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2) Read this comic strip by Randal Munroe and answer the following questions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Though 100 years is longer than a lot of our resources.\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/sustainable.png\" alt=\"Sustainable\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(This strip can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1007\/\">http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1007\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>a) For which span of years does the Munroe have data on the frequency of the use of the word &#8220;sustainable&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>b) Munroe made a model of this data.\u00a0 Does the model fit the data well?<\/p>\n<p>c) Munroe used his model to predict the frequency of the word &#8220;sustainable&#8221; in 2061.\u00a0 What percent of words does he predict will be &#8221;sustainable&#8221; in 2061?\u00a0 Is this an example of interpolation or extrapolation?\u00a0 Is this prediction likely to be valid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few comic strips dealing with extrapolation.\u00a0 Each is accompanied by a question I would ask students about the strip. 1) Explain this comic strip using knowledge from the course. (This strip is by Randall Munroe and can be accessed at http:\/\/xkcd.com\/605\/) 2) Read this comic strip by Randal Munroe and answer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12258],"tags":[12247,12249,12245,12246,12248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}