final exam & essay 2 scores

fair game chapters from the book

Basically, everything we covered. This includes Chapters 1-5, 6.1, 7.1, and Theorems 7.2.1,& 7.2.5.

Office Hours Today and Review

1) I will be in my office today 11:00am-1:00pm today to answer questions
2)  Hello professor Taylor,   A few students from math 300  will meet tomorrow (today!) in Hayden library at 3pm. If you could notify the class that it's open to anyone that wants to come and study to prepare for your final.  Thank you.

cumulative score to this date

Homework this week

Sections 5.1, 5.2

makeup exam in the testing center

The makeup exam will take place in the testing center Wednesday Dec 4 and Thursday Dec 5.  This is a very busy time in the testing center.  You will need to be in and out before 3pm.

Another writing assignment question

.....I cannot seem to get the proof of if m and k are not co-prime numbers. If you could explain to me how to start or give me any insight it would be appreciated!

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Well, you should carefully read the Theorem Statement section in wikipedia article on the Chinese Remainder Theorem, particularly the part following the fact that simultaneous congruences can be solved even when the divisors are not pairwise coprime.  Then I would reflect on what the existence and/or nonexistence of solutions to the simultaneous congruences says about the elements in the partition Pm.Pk