Brittney Ann Buell
Bernard Lewis
ENG 102
27 March 2018
A Problem Not Too Big To Be Solved
If you have 14 yellow ducks and divide them by 17 ½ yellow monkeys and then take the square
root of a tortilla chip, then what year did Abraham Lincoln sign the Declaration of
Independence? Who has not felt extremely overwhelmed at some point and time in a math class?
Math can be a very confusing subject for some people. How did you get this? Where did you get
that? Is that a letter in a math problem? Just like Simon Cowell from American Idol would say,
“I’m sorry but that’s going to be a no for me.” Numbers in general make life a little more
