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Solving for X - 5/3/2024

· By Kaiwen S · Published 2024-05-03T12:00:03.470Z

Meta Prompt
In the spirit of AP season for high schoolers in the U.S. and my own upcoming Calculus exam, I've made this calc-themed mini for my class. Anyone is welcome to give it a shot, of course, but it may be a little more difficult to solve without knowledge of calculus topics or AP testing. The circled letters in the grid can be rearranged to form a fundamental topic of calculus, dealing with change over time (or another variable). Thanks for playing!
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  • Chris solved 2024-05-03T13:01:09.844Z
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  • Chris 🤓2:07 · 2024-05-03T13:02:17.666Z
    Nice to know that I still remember my calculus from 1984 college classes. EE career doesn't let you forget.
    • Mike D 🤓36s · 2024-05-03T15:06:00.644Z
      Fun one!
      • Kaiwen S constructor · 2024-05-05T19:47:08.691Z
        Thanks!
      • An Ephemeral Collation 🤓49s · 2024-05-03T15:26:26.344Z
        Very well done! I know precious little about math but I imagine that this would be an even more salient solve for someone who does.
        • kurtalert 🤓33s · 2024-05-03T17:36:41.502Z
          Cool, thanks! Good luck to you and your classmates!
          • Kaiwen S constructor · 2024-05-05T19:47:25.882Z
            Thank you! We’ll try our best 🫡
          • Sam 🤓55s · 2024-05-03T19:10:45.716Z
            Good luck on your exam!
            • Kaiwen S constructor · 2024-05-05T19:47:32.132Z
              Thank you!
            • Sendhil Revuluri 👇55s · 2024-05-03T21:14:22.637Z
              Fun, thank you! Thanks for all the context and hints — enabled me to solve downs-only :) The meta was another matter… I ran through several anagrams before I figured it out!
              Best wishes for the AP and for your future mathematical endeavors. And if there is a HS crossword club at your school, I’d love to know about it — please ping me on Discord or at sendhil@gmail.com!
              • Kaiwen S constructor · 2024-05-05T19:50:04.387Z
                Thank you for playing! We don’t have a club for crosswords right now, but that could be a potential project next year!
              • SamuRai 🤓3:26 · 2024-05-03T23:27:31.109Z
                Definitely a 5. An if you forget the quotient rule, the multiplication, power, and chain rules will do. (25 years of doing calculus before memorizing the quotient rule!)
                • Kaiwen S constructor · 2024-05-05T19:48:11.493Z
                  Hopefully! Thanks for playing!
                • Larry Edelstein 🤓40s · 2024-05-04T00:59:42.478Z
                  Calc’s good to know; might come up when you don’t expect it. Go get
                  1A
                  School fundraising org.
                  1
                  2
                  3
                  4
                  5
                  6
                  7
                  8
                  9
                  10
                  11
                  Across
                  1. 1A
                    School fundraising org.
                  2. 4A
                    Brit. lexicon
                  3. 5A
                    Got a 1 or 2 on the AP calc exam, e.g.
                  4. 8A
                    Sum that may be an overestimate or underestimate
                  5. 9A
                    Birdhouse at the zoo
                  6. 10A
                    Glowing noble gas
                  7. 11A
                    Nashville sch.
                  Down
                  1. 1D
                    Coordinate system where you might graph a rose curve
                  2. 2D
                    Itsy-bitsy, like values in a taylor series as n approaches infinity
                  3. 3D
                    Opposite of subtraction, abbr.
                  4. 5D
                    Our scores on the AP calc exam, hopefully
                  5. 6D
                    Vowel quintet
                  6. 7D
                    "___ idiot!" (you might say this to yourself if you make an algebra error)
                  7. 8D
                    Vehemently complain about calculus class, e.g.
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