God makes light shine out of darkness. He hides his greatest treasure--his own glory shining in the face of Jesus--in the hearts of his people,fragile and simple as clay jars. It reminds us that the power is not from us, but from God.
As I dip my quill (electronic though it may be) to write this blog, the title Clay Inkpot reminds me where the power and wisdom come from. If what you read has no merit, that's where bits of me have flaked off and muddied the ink.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The New Math
The size of your tax refund is directly proportional to the size of your emergency dental bill (and/or car repair).
I wish. It's definitely directly proportional. As in, nice big refund=nice big dentist bill. Another way the new math works is The size of your tax refund is less than or equal to the size of the unexpected bills that come in the same week.
That's what inversely proportional means... The refund is never larger than the bills it needs to cover. Basically, the concept of inverse proportion means that as the absolute value or magnitude of one variable gets bigger, the absolute value or magnitude of another gets smaller, such that their product (the constant of proportionality) is always the same.
Thankfully, this years tax return was directly proportionally to the airfare and trips expense from visiting my mom in February...a much better way to spend it!!!!
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inversely proportional.
I hope the truck keeps grinning and the teeth don't brake. We OWE again this year.
I wish. It's definitely directly proportional. As in, nice big refund=nice big dentist bill. Another way the new math works is
The size of your tax refund is less than or equal to the size of the unexpected bills that come in the same week.
That's what inversely proportional means... The refund is never larger than the bills it needs to cover. Basically, the concept of inverse proportion means that as the absolute value or magnitude of one variable gets bigger, the absolute value or magnitude of another gets smaller, such that their product (the constant of proportionality) is always the same.
Thankfully, this years tax return was directly proportionally to the airfare and trips expense from visiting my mom in February...a much better way to spend it!!!!
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