Math Problem.

I though of an awesome math problem for a math test. Didn't have anywhere else to put it, so it goes here. see if you can figure it out...

Part 1
The price for an desk was $10 but it was discounted by 20% and then Betty bought it for that price and sold it to a rich landowner in Afganistan for 20.00 plus tax (5%), Shipping(at a cost of approximately PI times the average monthly rainfall of the Amazon rain forest in 1990) and handling (50.5 times the square root of 2 yen, converted into dollars on the exchange rates of October 2004, with 2.635% commision, compensating for the inflation rates of the Yen but not the dollar.) In August of 2005, she bought it back from him, with Californian tax rates and exactly the square root of pi times the square root of 7 in shipping charges.

Ready for the second part? I doubt it...

Part 2
Taking into account these numbers(integers, real numbers, and imaginary numbers, as well as numbers in conventional surd form, belonging to the set E), as well as the average tunafish consumption rates for 3-5 year olds in South Dakota, and the Pythagorean theorem, calculate the IQ required to evaluate and explain (i.e. contemplate) the social and economic values, in relation to Homo Faber, of the consequences(i.e. effects) that this question may have on the future of paperback(softcover) vs. hardback(hardcover) textbooks in the northern(southern) hemisphere, specifically between 32 degrees and pi times r squared degrees of longitude and (as well as or) latitude.

Think you've got the answer? tell me!

Back... again!

I see that this blog has now been left alone for a whole month. That's a record so far!
Boy, I've been travelling a lot lately! my last two trips were to Prague, with my class, and to Cambridge, England.
Prague is a city with a lot fo history and a suprising amount of buildings that not only are well preserved, but are also in current use (not as tourist attractions). Despite the hookers and drug dealers that have been bred by the relatively recent release of the Communist grip upon the country, the historic nature of much of the city makes it a very nice town to wander around in to simply look and learn. The city has many of the usual tourist attractions (i.e. big churches and buildings, a palace with changing of guards, and an Eiffel tower copy) as well as plenty of more unique sites (a historic town of tiny houses, a really big church, etc.)

I enjoyed the scenery of the Cambridge area much more than that that I experienced on my London trip last year (was it last year, or the year before? i should check). Also, I re-confirmed the fact that there is barely any good traditional British food, with the exception of custard.