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It's just going to be a fantastic day of prizes. We've had a brilliant week giving away a prize every single hour right across all of all of the shows. So it's just been fantastic. And I hope that the listeners have felt in some way that we're making their Christmas a little bit brighter this year. And hopefully now I'm just going to spin this drum here. Because we have a fantastic response to the to the draw. So we're really delighted with it. People really embraced it once again this year. So we're delighted to be giving away all this cash as well. So hold on now. See if I can spin this because it's kind of heavy. So this is the main moment. If you have entered, OK, stand by your phone because we could be dialing you if you enter the draw and you're on the phone to someone. Hang up, OK, because we need you to be fit to answer the call this morning. Give it a good old spin. I think that's a good old spin there. And we are probably on the wrong side for you. Am I? No. We've been here. Let's go down a little bit. Make sure I only pull out one. And the winner is one, oh, four, eight, nine. OK, so one, zero, four, eight, nine. That is number one, zero, four, eight, nine. That is the lucky winner. Of course, this ticket goes back into the draw now again. So they're still in with the chance of winning the car. So that's for that back in there. And it's not unusual for the person to win the 1,000 year to win the car as well. It will be just typical. I had a lady in yesterday buying a ticket and she was like, well, you know, I did win the credit union car. I was like, Harry, Jesus, you can't be winning all the cars. And I know it is a lovely car. Oh, it's beautiful. It's absolutely a beautiful car. We're delighted to partner this year with iMotors as well with it. And the Exceed is just a fantastic car. Anybody that's ever sat in one and driven it, it's just been they're just really comfy. And yeah, just I'm not taking responsibility for any of the speeding tickets whoever gets this gets because they're they're a nippy little thing. Yeah, no, they're really, really nice car. I was at my energy yesterday morning because I pulled up and it was pure darkness thinking, who's here already? And just looking at those are really nice car. And then it clicked over there. The win me on the front of the car. Why are we paying Kevin to be here in the mornings? He doesn't recognize cars that were been flogging for the last seven weeks. To be fair, I first thought when I said, almost be in Northern Ireland, right? And I've seen the top of the first thing I thought of. He does the weather by sticking his head out the window. I'm we're going to have to reassess your contract in 2022. I think definitely going to have to have a conversation about it. But now it's it's all good. So don't forget people that we'll be giving away a thousand euros on every one of the shows today. So Greg's going to have the thousand euros and the car draw. JB has got his this afternoon and then David and then on Ivan's show as well. So it's all the way across the day. So even if the car goes, there's loads of opportunity as well to win other bits and pieces on the show today. I have to say, I admire your earrings. I see them yesterday, they look so well. I don't own a Christmas jumper. I'm going to have to buy one. I don't either. I felt so underdressed this morning, they'll be honest. I was going to ask Greg for his hat, but he actually wouldn't give it to me. So I'll have to get one for next year. Oh, well, they're after giving me this, but they didn't tell me where she's from. She's from Letter Kenny. I've been told because he put the sorry. You put the phone. He's very efficient is our job. And then he put the phone number where the where the telephone that where the location is supposed to be. So it's a lady from Letter Kenny and her name is Ann Doherty. 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Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering AWS Public Sector Summit 2017. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services and its partner ecosystem. Where was Mr.... And welcome back live here on theCUBE. Along with John Furrier, I'm John Walls. Welcome to AWS Public Sector Summit 2017. Again, live from Washington D.C., your nation's capital, our nation's capital. And with us now is our host for the week. Puts on one heck of a show. I'm going to tell you, 10,000 strong here, jammed into the Washington Convention Center. Teresa Carlson from World Wide Public Sector. Nice to have you here, Teresa. Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Love theCUBE and thank you for being here with us today. Absolutely. All week and back. It's been great, it really has. So let's just talk about the show first off. Okay. Way back, six years ago, right? We could probably get everybody there jammed into our little area here just about, I think. Pretty much, yeah. Hard to do today. That's right. Yeah, so just how do you feel about when you see this kind of growth and this kind of, not only at the show, but in your sector in general? Well, you know, I think at AWS, we're humbled and excited and on a personal level because I was sort of given the charge of go create this public sector business worldwide. I'm blown away. I pinch myself every time because you did hear my story. The first event, we had about 50 people in the basement of some hotel. Like, and then we're like, okay. And today, you know, 10,000 people. And last year, we had it at the Marriott Warman Park and we shut down Connecticut Avenue. So we sort of knew we needed to make a change. But it's great. And this is really about our customers and partners. This is really for them. It's for them to make connections, share. And the whole theme of this is superheroes and they are our superheroes. Well, one of the heroes you had on the stage today, John Edwards from the CIA. One of your poster children, if you will, for great success in that kind of collaboration, said something to the effect of, quote, the best decision we ever made at the CIA was engaging with AWS in that partnership. When you hear something like that, from such a treasured partner, you got to feel pretty good. Well, you just have to drop the microphone boom and you're sort of done because, and they are doing amazing work, you know, and their innovation levels are really leading, I would say, in the US public sector for sure and also not just in US public sector, but around the world, their efforts of what they're doing and the scale and reach at which they're doing it. So that's pretty cool. And John, you've talked about the CIA moment. I'd like to hear the story. I mean, Sherry, Theresa. Are you still my thunder here? No, no, I'm not.  That's what a good partner does. Well, John, you know, we've had multiple times already. So I'll say for the third time, the shot heard around the cloud was my kind of definition of a similar moment. As always see in big mega trends, there's always a moment. It was when Obama tweeted, Twitter grew, Lane landing on the Hudson. There's always a seminal moment in major trends that make or break companies. For you guys, it was the CIA. And since then, it's just been a massive growth for you guys because that deal was interesting because it validated shadow IT, validated the cloud and it also unseeded IBM, the behemoth sales organization that own the account. So in a way, a lot of things lined up. Take us through what's happened then and since then to now. Well, I mean, now you sort of, you saw between yesterday at Werner Vogels keynote and my keynote this morning, just the breadth and depth of the type of customers we have. Everything from the UK government, GCHQ, the Department of Justice with the IT in the UK to the Centers for Medicare for HHS to amazing educational companies, Cal Polytech, Australia and tax office. I mean, that's just the breadth and depth of the type of customers we have and all of their stories were impactful. I mean, every story is impactful in their own way and across whatever sector they have. And that really just tells you that the type of workloads that people are running has evolved because I remember in the early days when you and I first talked, we talked about what are the kind of workloads and we were talking a little bit about like website hosting. That's of course really evolved into things like machine learning, artificial intelligence, you know, massive scale of just applications. Five years ago, I think with five or six years ago when we first chatted at re-invent, it's interesting because now this is the size of re-invent what it was then. So you're in the same trajectory from a show size. Again, validation to the growth in public sector. But I was complimenting you on our opening today saying that you're tenacious because we've talked early days. It was kind of a slog in the early days to get going in the cloud. You were knocking on a lot of doors, convincing people, hey, the future is going to look this way. And I won't say they slammed the proverbial door in your face, but it was more of, whoa, they don't believe the cloud is ever going to happen for the government. Share some of those stories because now looking back, obviously the world has changed. It has and in fact, it's changed in many aspects of it from policy makers, which I think will be great for you all to have on here sometimes to get their perspective on cloud. But policy makers who are now thinking about, we just had a new modernization of IT mandate come out in the US federal government where they're going to give millions and millions of dollars toward the modernization of IT for US government agencies which is going to be huge. That's the first time that's ever happened to an executive order around cybersecurity which is pretty much mandated to look at cloud and how you use it. So you're seeing things like that to even have grants are given where it used to be an old school model of hardware only to now use cloud. So those like ideas and aspects of how individuals are using IT but also just the procurements that are coming out, the buying vehicles that you're seeing come out of government, almost all of them have cloud now. And John and I were talking about DC and the political climate, obviously we always talk about on my show, comment on that, but interesting, theCUBE, we could do damage here in DC. So much target rich environment for content but more than ever to me is the tech scene here is really intrinsically different. For example, this is not a new shiny new toy kind of trend. It is a fundamental transformation of the business model. So what's interesting to me is again, since the CIA shot a hurt around the cloud moment you've seen a real shift in operating model. So the question if I have for you, Theresa, if you can comment on this is, how has that changed? How has the procuring of technology changed? How has the human side of the change? Because people want to do a good job. They just on many computers and mainframes from the old days, with small incremental improvement over the years on IT but now to a fundamental agile that's going to be more apps, more, more, more apps. And I will, and you said something really important just a moment ago, which this is a different kind of group than you'll get in Silicon Valley. And it is, but it's a very enterprise. Everybody you see here, every project they work on, we're talking DOD, the enterprise of enterprises.  And how that's changed in the old days here in government, they know how to write acquisitions for a missile or a tanker or something really big in IT. And what's changing is their ability to write acquisitions for agile, IT, things like cloud utility-based models, moving fast, flywheel approach to IT acquisitions. So that's what's changing, that kind of acquisition model. And then also you're seeing the system integrator community here change. Where they were just sort of what I call body shops to do a lot of these projects. They're having to evolve their IT skills. They're getting much more certified in areas of AWS that the system had been to certified solution architects at the highest level to really roll these projects out. So training, education, the type of acquisition and how they're doing it. What happened in terms of paradigm shift mindset? Something had to happen, because you brought a vision to the table, but somebody had to buy it, right? And usually we talk about legacy systems was a legacy mindset too. Resistant, reluctant, cautious. Well everything that's grown at. Where did it tip the other way? Where did it go? I think it's been, over time, it's different with different parts of the government that culture is the hardest thing to always change. Like other elements of any changes is you get there but culture is fundamentally the hardest thing. So you're seeing that, you've always heard us say you can't fight gravity and cloud is the new normal. That has just kept right that sort of whole culture. People are like, I cannot do my project anymore without the use of cloud computing. We also have a saying you can't fight fashion either and sometimes being in fashion, it's kind of what the trends are going on. So I got to ask you, what is the fashion statement in cloud these days with your customers? Is it, you mentioned they're moving much down in the workload, is it multi-cloud? Is it analytics? Where's the fashionable, cool action right now? Yeah, I think here right now the cool thing that people really are talking about are artificial intelligence, machine learning, how they take advantage of that. You heard a lot about recognition yesterday, Polly and Lex, these new tools, how they are so differentiating anything that they could possibly develop quickly. So it's those kind of tools that really we're hearing and of course the IoT for state and local is a big deal. So I got to answer the hard question. I always ask Andy a hard question too. Yeah, okay. If he's watching you're going to get this one prior to reinvent. Amazon is a DevOps culture. You ship code fast and you make all these updates and it's moving very, very fast. And one of the things that you guys have done well but I still think you need some work to do in terms of critical analysis is getting the releases out that are on public cloud, into the Gov cloud. You guys have shortened that down to less than a year on most things. You got the East region now rolled out so full disaster covered. And that's but government has always been lagging behind most commercial. How are you guys shrinking that window? When do you see the day when push button, commercial, Gov cloud are all locked step and pushing code to both clouds. Yeah, so we could actually do that. We couldn't do that today but there's a couple of big differentiators that are important for the Gov cloud. And that is it requires US citizenship, which as you know we've talked about the challenges of technology and skills. I mean that's just out there, right? And at Amazon web services, we're a very diverse company of group of individuals that do our coding and development and not all of them are US citizens. So for these two clouds, you have to be US citizen. So that is an indicator. In terms of developers. In terms of building the product. Well managing, managing, not building, but managing sort of the management aspect. And we because of their design, we have multiple individuals managing multiple clouds, right? So now with us it's about getting that scale going, that flywheel for us. So now it's going to be managing the USA versus made in the USA with everything that's in service. Yeah, it is. And so for us it's about just making sure, number one, we can roll them out. But secondly, we do not want to roll services into those clouds unless they're critical. So we are moving a lot faster. We rolled in a lot more services. And the other cool thing is we're starting to do some unique things for our Gov cloud regions, which maybe the next time we can talk a bit more about those things. Okay, great. Final question for me and for Lechon Jump in. The CIA has got this DevOps factory thing. And I want you to talk about it because I think it points to the trend that's encouraging to me at least because I'm skeptical on government as you know. But this is a full transformation shift to how they do development. Right. So talk about this 4,000 work stage or developers that got rid of their development work stations are now doing cloud. And the question is, who else is doing it? Is this a trend that you see happening across other agencies? Yeah, so the reason that's really important, I know you know in the old school model, you waited forever to provision anything even just to do development. And you heard John talk about that and that's what he meant on this sort of work station. This long period of time it took for them to do any kind of development. Now what they do is they just use any mode they have and they go and they provision the cloud like that. And then they can also not just do that, they can create Amis of course, their Amazon machine images. So they have super repeatable tools. So think about that. We have these super repeatable tools sitting in the cloud that you can just pull down these machine images and begin to create both code and development and build off those building blocks. You move so much faster than you did in the past. So that's sort of a big trend. I would say they're definitely leading it. But other key groups are like NASA, HHS, Department of Justice. So those are some of the key big groups that we're seeing really do a lot of changes that they're doing. I got to ask you about them. They're also DHS on the Kessman Border Patrol. Same, they're doing the same. Really innovators. So one of the things that's happening which I'm kind of intrigued by is the whole digital transformation in our culture. Society, certainly the federal government wants to take care of the civil liberties of the citizens. So it's not a privacy question. It's more of where smart cities is going. You're starting to see kind of the I call the digital kind of parks, if you will. Where you're starting to see like a digital park going to Yosemite and camping out and using pristine resources and enjoying them. There's a demand for citizens to get democratized resources available to them. Super computing or data sets. What's your philosophy on that? What is Amazon doing to facilitate and accelerate the citizens value of technology so it can be in the hands of anyone? I love that question because I'll tell you at the heart of our business is what we call citizen service. Paving the way for disruptive innovation to make the world a better place. That's your citizen services and their access. And for us, we have multiple things. Everything from our data set program where we fund multiple data sets that we put up on the cloud and let everybody take advantage of them from the individual student to the researcher for no fee to working with- You pick up the costs on that. We do. We fund, we put those data sets in completely. We allow them to go and explore and use. The only time they would ever pay is if they sort of go off and then start creating their own systems. But we've done that with tons of amazing, well, the most highly curated data sets that they're right now are pretty much on AWS. You heard me talk about the earth, the AWS earth that we have that shows the earth. We have weather data sets, cancer data sets. I mean, we're working with so many groups, genomic, phenotypes, genomes of rice, the rice genome that we've done. So with something that you see that you're behind or passionate about and will continue to do. Because you've got to provide, you never know when that individual student or small community school is out there and they can access tools that they never could have accessed before. I mean, the training in education because you've got to, you know, that creativity of the mind. We need to open that up to everybody and we fundamentally believe that cloud is a huge opportunity for that. And you heard me tell the thousand genome story in the past of where we took the cancer data set or the genome data set from NIH, put it into AWS for the first time. The first week we put it up, we had 3200 new researchers crowdsource on that data set. And that was the first time that I know of that anyone had put up a major data set for research. And the scale certainly is a great resource. Yeah. And smart cities is an interesting area. I want to get your thoughts on your relationship with Intel. Yeah. They have 5G coming out, they have a full network transformation. You're going to have autonomous vehicles out there. You're going to have all kinds of digital. How are you guys planning on powering the cloud and what's the role that Intel will play with you guys in the relationship? Well, of course serverless computing comes into play significantly in areas like that because you don't, you know, you want to create efficiencies even in the cloud. I mean, we're all about that. People, you know, they always said, oh, AWS want to do that because that's disrupting themselves. Well, we're okay with disrupting ourselves if it's the right thing. And we also don't want to, you know, hog resourcing of these tools that aren't necessary. So when it comes to devices like that and OT, you need very efficient computing and you need tools that allow that efficient computing to both scale but not over resource things. So that will, you'll see us continue to have models like that around OT or Lambda or serverless computing and how we access and make sure that those resources are used appropriately. We're almost out of time. So I'd like to shift over if we can, really impressed with the NGO work, the nonprofit work as well and your working education space. Just talk about, I guess, the nuance differences between working with those particular constituents and the customer base, what you've learned and the kind of work that you're providing in those silos right now. They are amazing. They are so frugal with their resources and it makes you hungry to really want to go out and help their mission because what you will find when you go meet with a lot of these not-for-profits, they are doing some of the most amazing work that even many people I've really not heard of and they're being so frugal with how they resource and drive IT. And there's a program called Feed the World and I met the developer of this and it's like two people and they have fed millions of people around the world with like three developers and creating an app and doing great work to everything from like the American Heart Association that has a mission literally of stopping heart disease which is their number one killer around the world and when you meet them and you see the things they're doing and how they are using cloud computing to change and forward their mission, even you heard us talk about human trafficking. It's a horrible, misunderstood environment out there that more of us need to be informed on and help with but computing can be a complete differentiator for them cloud computing. So we get millions of dollars of grants away and not just give it away, we help them. We help them with the technical resourcing, how they're efficient and we work really hard to try to help forward their mission and get the word out. So it's really, it's humbling and it's really nice to feel that you're not only doing things for big governments but you also can help that individual not-for-profit that has a mission that's really important to not only them but you know, groups in the world. It's a different level of citizen service, right? I mean, ocean conservancy this morning. Right, talking about that. Title change, a global change. What's the biggest thing that in your mind? Personal question. Obviously you've been through that from the beginning to now. A lot more growth ahead of you. I'm speculating that AWS public sector although you won't disclose the numbers. We'll get, I'll find a number around here. It's big. You guys could run the table, take a big share. Similarly you've done with the startup and now enterprise market. What, do you have a pinch me moment where you go am I, you know, where are we? Like where are you on that spectrum of self-awareness of what's actually happening to you and this world and your team? Yeah, you know, in public sector we operate just like all of AWS and all of Amazon.   We are just getting going. And today we have, you know, customers in 155 countries and I have employees in about 25 countries now. And in seven years ago, that was not the case. So when you're moving that fast, you know that you're just getting going and that you have so much more that you can do to help your customers and create a partner ecosystem. So it's really, it's a mission for us. It really is a mission and I'm, you know, my team and myself are really excited about out there every day working to support our customers to really grow and get them moving faster. So we sort of keep pushing them to go faster. So we have a long way to go and maybe ask me five years from now, we'll see. How about next year? We'll come back, we'll ask you again next year. How about that? Yeah, maybe I'll know more next year. Theresa, thank you for the time. Very generous with your time. I know you have a big schedule over the course of this week. So thank you for being here with us once again on theCUBE. Thank you. Many time, CUBE alum, Theresa Carlson from AWS. Back with more here from the AWS Public Sector Summit 2017, Washington DC, right after this.


Hello everyone, welcome back to Mind Pump, it's that time of year again, cakes, cookies, and pies in all types of treats that pack pounds on your thighs and your belly. Well we've got the answer for you today, here's a cookie tip, if it's good with butter, it's good with more butter. We talk about all the things that you can do to avoid gaining weight during the holidays. Okay, look, so what, you put on a little weight? A little weight? Does this look like a little weight to you? Enjoy the show. When people gain weight throughout the year, a large chunk of it happens to happen around the holiday season. There are some things you can do to prevent this from happening and actually take advantage of those extra calories you'll be eating through the holiday season. You know, this, we visit this topic every year. You remember the meme I used to share every year? I haven't shared it in a couple of years, so maybe I'll have to dig it up and find you. Remember the meme I used to send around this? Yeah. When you were in the holidays, you were fat in July. Oh yeah, I remember that. But I remember, I don't know how accurate this is, but I remember this being 8 to 12 pounds. We were told this right in the gym space, the average American gains 8 to 12 pounds over the holiday season and then doesn't lose it all afterwards and that ends up adding up over the years. And if you look at a chart of weight gain over the year, a majority of it does happen around this time of year and it's because there's a lot of food, a multitude of factors, family, there's a reason to overeat, there's a reason to be inactive, and so what we tend to do is we tend to quote-unquote let go during this period of time, sort of shelve our disciplines for just a little bit. So this has actually been debated, it's like one of those things like how many calories is muscle burn. Yeah. It's like one of those things. That's why I said it's been told the most. Personally, I actually think it's higher than that. I think a lot of people put on more weight, what do you got, what's it saying? It says about a pound.  Well, hold on, hold on. Is it a pound after, like done? Or is it every day from Thanksgiving? No, no. And so despite our worst fears, the average American really only puts on one pound during the holiday season. Okay, by the way, can I say something real quick? Everybody's like, there's only a pound, right? That's a pound that you don't lose of body fat. So 10 years of celebrating Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever, 10 pounds of additional body fat on top of the other five. Okay, so I would get behind that. Like it's a pound you never lose and it's compounding. So every year, yeah, every year now your average is one pound higher that you maintain the year every year. And so. But that also means that half of everybody gains more than a pound, right? Because that's the average, right? So on average, well, I guess that would be medium. But you get what I'm saying is that there's a large percentage of people actually gain more than a pound. But nonetheless, look, we all get this. We all feel this over the holiday season. We all know, this is something that everybody understands that this is a time of year where it can be difficult to maintain your health and fitness, right? Things get a little bit more challenging. Now I do want to say this first, we're not the fitness podcast and we're not the trainers and coaches who will discredit the value of enjoying meals, enjoying glasses of wine and enjoying being with family because you're not going to be able to keep your six pack or we're not going to tell you to bring your Tupperware to Thanksgiving dinner. No, because there's tremendous health value in celebrating these times with your family, especially if you don't see these people on a regular base, especially if there's only time you get to connect with these people. So what you're not going to hear from us is, you know, insanity around that. Like there's real value around that. I think the challenge, the problem is people go above and beyond that value and it becomes this like, oh, here's where I, it goes from I'm enjoying myself and connecting with people to, oh my God, this is what I'm going to binge. This is what I'm going to make myself feel terrible. This is what my stomach's in. And now I need to punish myself for this. And then afterwards, right? Yeah, I tell you guys that I did a show the day after Thanksgiving. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I'll never forget that. With a terrible. I thought it was like a brilliant strategy.  Like, and I had, I was like, I got the discipline. You forget you're competing and they're like. I know, everybody's all neurotic. It was like a super packed show. So of course, like this is what they all thought. They're like, no problem sacrificing that. And I'll never do that again. And it could, by the way, Katrina always reminds me of that. Right.   You don't remember. I have an example. Yeah, you don't remember driving down South, like eating out of Tupperware for Thanksgiving. I'm like, oh, you're right. I do remember that one year we did that, you know, and the, and it's, you know, interesting because obviously I was in the middle of a much larger goal that I was incredibly focused on. Right. So I don't, I don't regret it. I would never do it again. Just there's no more value. Like, why would you do that? Yeah, yeah. And there, and there at that time, I really, really thought that it was, it was a smart strategy to, to get to my pro card and stuff like that. And so that was the idea or win my first pro show. That's what I was trying to do. And I do remember how much I missed out on the, on the family stuff. And I'm like, oh, I'll never, I'll never do that again. And I'll never do that to you again. I remember telling her that, like to allow us to miss one of the days of the year when all of our family makes an effort to make sure they are together and stuff, all to look a certain way or win some dumb trophy or to prove to everybody, whatever, this is such an important thing to communicate, because part of developing a good relationship with food as understanding all of its values and part of the value of food, a big part of the value of food is bonding and connecting with the people around you. It's enjoying being present with the food. Like I love, one of my favorite things to do with big meals around the holidays is to talk and experience the flavors with the people around me. Oh my God, did you try this? And oh, this is so good. And who made this dish right here?  Shit goes off the rails when your relationship with food going into the holidays already isn't great.  It becomes like this way in excess, way in excess where you're sitting.  Right?  Like that was way too much. What did I, I didn't even enjoy. I'm not even enjoying this time right now because I hurt myself.  So working on a good relationship with food is crucial to having a good time with the people around you, around the holidays. Now, what does that look like? Well, it looks like this, understanding all the values around food, which include the stuff that we talk about in the fitness space, which is how this affects me physiologically, how does the house affects me?  What gives me more energy? It's also understanding how do I eat when I'm stressed? How do I eat when I'm depressed? Um, it's also being present when you eat.  That type of behavior is not necessary. That's not, that's not really valuing the true value of food. That's almost a numbing or distracting type of behavior. So you have to go into the holidays and save yourself. And by the way, some people do this on the holidays because they don't like being around family. They don't like being around certain people that make the main truth. So they get really drunk or they bury themselves in the meal. Um, and that's also not a good relationship. So you have to go into it saying, I am going to connect with the following people and I'm going to try these dishes that I haven't had in a while and savor them, right? Savor these dishes, not like pound them down as fast as I can, but rather enjoy this meal. And, and, and I'm not going to allow myself to get painfully full because there's no enjoyment in that, right? Nobody enjoys feeling so stuff that they feel sick to the stomach. Yeah. The stomach. Use that opportunity to slow down. And it's, it's interesting because to your point of people kind of bringing their signature dish is like, this is, this is something they made with their love and, and, and their effort.  And it's like this whole experience part of that, uh, where you get to kind of bond with, with your family. And it's like, I mean, like this is just one specific day or maybe like a few days out of the year where you get to spend that kind of time with, uh, your family. And it's like to, to be so focused myopically on like, wow, well, what are the macros in this and what's this one going to do for me in terms of like setting me back. And it's really like nil in, in the grand scope of things. And, but, but to your point of like excess, like you can, you can indulge, but you can do it in a way where it's slow and paced and you have a lot better chance of not like going completely in excess. And that's what we're going to talk about today. So we're going to talk about how we can help you with nutrition. In fact, in today's episode, we talk about how to not gain weight during the holiday season. So here's what we got. We have the fasting guide. We have reverse dieting 101. And we also have the intuitive nutrition guide. All three of them, 50% off. Here's how you get them, go to mapsfitnessproducts.com and then use the code healthy for the 50% off discount. All right, here comes the show. Since you brought up, uh, signature dishes, uh, what are they from a macro perspective? Just what do you think is a shitty dish that someone brings all the time? Justin, what'd you say? The Jell-O base. Yeah, the marshmallow Jell-O. Especially when they rebrand it as salad. Like, what are we doing? Jell-O fruit salad or whatever it's called. I'm not a fan of, I'm not a huge fan of, uh, white meat and turkey. What? No, white turkey meat is dry. It depends how juicy the turkey is. Give me the brown meat. The brown meat is the good stuff. That's, that's a bad example of a signature dish that is like really like white turkey. Cork's family's all dark meat roll. I mean, I certainly do over a bunch of other things, over a can of cranberries or over freaking, uh, yams with marshmallows in and syrup in it. Like, yeah, there's a lot of other things. I like cranberries. You like cranberries? I like that. Oh, I put it on my turkey all the time. Doug, you're more of a foodie. Come on, what's, what, what? Yeah, so the one you mentioned, the sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Yes. I despise that. So do I. But one year somebody came to our house for Thanksgiving and they brought their version from their family. And not only did they have sweet potatoes with marshmallows, they had red hots in it. Like red hot candy? Yes. Oh my God. I mean, I, it really, I had a gag reflex. And they said, oh, this is so good. We make it every year. Our family makes this. And it was so horrible. It was the worst thing I ever tasted. It was passed down from the old country. They used to put peppers, but now we use red hots. Wow. I've never heard of that before. Yeah. Yeah. So I've had it with like marshmallows and like a maple syrup and stuff like that. I'm just like, dude, that is just, their sweet potatoes are so good. A little bit of butter and that's it. If that, I don't even need butter on mine. Well, you guys, are there certain, so here's, I like to go in this direction. Are there certain dishes that you normally don't have, except for around this time of year that people tend to make? Stuffing. Stuffing. That's why I never eat stuffing, but on Thanksgiving. Is there somebody in particular? Oh yeah, my mom, my mom makes incredible. And she does it the traditional way where you actually stuff the turkey and stuff. And it's homemade from scratch. So she's not using like a box of, she cuts up all the little pieces. My godmother makes really good stuffing that I look forward to. And I make sure to have a little bit of it because I never have it. Ours is a 100 year old recipe too. That's why it's kind of cool. Really? Yeah. So you talk about tradition and things like that. See, that's what I mean. There's a lot of value in that, right? Yeah. So it's kind of cool to talk about it and how it's been passed down in the family when we have it. So I definitely, the stuffing is something that I know, I would never eat that throughout the year. Rest of the year, I don't think I ever have stuffing on that day. I absolutely have this. There's this one dish that my grandma made, and I think it's from Denmark. But it's like a, it's called patita, I think. But it's like, it's basically a hazelnut bread that has, anyways, it's really good with butter. We have it usually for breakfast. And it's like, I would never eat it otherwise. But it's just like, one of those like, we look forward to it because it's sweet. It's like a sweet bread and it's delicious. So there's one, so we have monkey bread that I never have that gets from Katrina's family. Her niece always makes this like homemade monkey bread. That's bomb. That's the one you're supposed to pull apart. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so this is, this is great. I love that where you took this, Adam, because there's definitely dishes that I look forward to because I never have them otherwise. And it's around the holidays. And I found myself go through this transition years ago. So years ago, the holidays became definitely binge time for me because I was like, build muscle, you know, trying to work out whatever. And so then I'd go into the holidays and especially if I was trying to be lean before that, which happened a little later on, I'd go in and it was like all, it was like, I'd take the hands off and just go crazy. And I would always end up with like too much, like just painful, painfully full, not feeling good, taking a nap on the couch. And I lost, I would lose the value of the particular holiday. It became like this thing. Oh, Sal's asleep on the couch. Why? Because he ate too much food and stomach hurts. Later on, I became much more present. I grab a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I'd sit there and I'd savor it. And then we'd share and we'd talk about it. And it became a totally different experience. I gained way more value out of those meals. Another one is like a pecan pie, homemade pecan pie, which I mean, it's just homemade pies in general. A little bit of vanilla ice cream with that. Yeah. So this is a big deal. Like when you go into it, understanding this like, okay, who am I going to see?  And she makes this one thing. And I'm going to go see this guy. And he's going to make my uncle. And he makes this one thing. Or there's this particular alcoholic beverage that my cousin likes to make. And instead of, you know, you know what people screw up a lot on the holidays? Processed chips, candy, soda. Snacking all the time.  Yeah, stupidly like the novel stuff, real novel stuff. Yeah, I do Irish coffees. You know, my father-in-law makes really good Irish coffees. That's actually a tip that you didn't put on here that I think is a good tip is actually to just, is to try and avoid all the generic crappy snack food that gets put out before the meal comes. That has no value to holiday. Right, and like enjoy the feast with your family with the things that we're talking about versus the all day long kind of grazing on this stuff that's just, you know, potato chips and ranch dressing, you know, stuff like that. Or the ranch dressing with the carrots that everybody globs and does that. Those type of things like that. I feel like I would try and restrict from that. That's accessible all the time. But yeah, it's only once in a while does, you know, my niece make the monkey bread or that my mom makes the stuffing. That's like, so I'd rather savor for that. And you'll enjoy it more too versus I'm already kind of full and then now I'm full. I mean, this sounds silly, but if you go into the holiday saying, I'm going to savor these dishes that people prepared for this holiday and I'm going to connect with people that I don't normally see and I don't normally have this opportunity to connect with, you'll find you're far less likely to eat past the point of full. You're far less likely to overeat on garbage junk food that you could get anytime of the year at the convenience store. You'll find yourself deriving the real value out of the holidays. This is what I mean by working on a good relationship with food. This is part of that. And now this is a process that kind of takes time. It's a continual process because your relationship with food evolves as your life evolves, but really identifying these things. And of course, there's tips and tricks like eat protein first and eat the vegetables first because that helps provide more satiety. And we've talked about that at Nauseum, I think, on previous podcasts. But I think if you go into it with what I'm talking about where I'm like, you know, I'm going to really sit and enjoy, like put your phone down, don't be distracted, don't watch the TV, talk to the people around you or find those few family members you don't mind hanging out with, and then like savor and enjoy the food, you'll eat slower and you'll end up really deriving the real value and you'll avoid the shitty, overstuffed, crappy feeling that really is why people gain so much weight. They just overdo it. Now, is there anything that you guys do in regards to training and eating, leading up to that? So let's say it's the week of. So it's Thanksgiving's Thursday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, is there, and you're cognizant of what Thursday is. You know what you're probably going to enjoy yourself calorie-wise and maybe not, maybe you're not even going to be moving as much or whatever, you know what your day looks like. And so are there certain things that you guys will do leading up to that day as far as your eating and your training looks? Yeah, so personally, I have specific ones for me, which include not eating any foods that cause any digestive issues with myself, leading up to it knowing that I'm going to have things that like gluten and stuff like that. So three, four days before, I eat super like easy digestible food because if I go into it with poor digestion, it really will ruin the experience for me. But that's me personally, with clients towards the end of my career, this is when I'd have them reverse diet. Not the three days before, but I'd have them reverse diet working into it because it worked well into the reverse diet because you're going to have extra calories anyway. So why don't we make this like a short bulk period anyway? So now when you're in the holiday meal and you're eating the extra calories, it works well with our goal, which is reverse dieting, building muscle, fueling muscle growth. So that's more generally. I don't know. No, no, I love that. So that's similar to what... So I would normally do like a mini cut like at the beginning of November. So I'm in a low calorie deficit and then that week leading into it, very similar. I would start to reverse out of it. I would start building the calories up. I also, if there's a week or I'd say a couple of days where I might overreach it almost intentionally, it's going to be on this too. Yeah. So I would do a little bit longer workout or kind of push a little bit harder than usual than the advice that we normally give, knowing that I'm going to be extra sore, knowing that my body's going to want potentially extra calories to help me recover since I know I'm going to be getting them anyway. So those are probably the two things that I do between like the training and the diet, like leading into that. So I actually organized a little personal holiday around this strategy. You guys know this. I love that too. I started incorporating some very similar. After every Thanksgiving, this will be your, I don't know what this is going to be, year nine or 10 or maybe nine or 10, where so almost a decade, I've organized what we call the post Thanksgiving and we say the Guido workout because it's my cousins and I. So racist. I know. And what we do is we all have our Thanksgiving together and of course we're going to eat more than we normally do and enjoy ourselves and that stuff. And remember I said that the goal, my personal goal was kind of this reverse diet or sort of shade, excuse me, should I say this, this goal that I would get my clients, like reverse diet uses to build strength. And I thought this was perfect. Like let's meet the day after and do heavy lifting together. And so it's really, it's more bonding. It's more family time, but I've also hit a lot of PRs on the day after Thanksgiving. So this is really utilize all the stored energy. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think it's, it's a really solid approach like because to like, you're able to now put a lot of that to banked energy, just consume to work. And why not go through a book?  Well, I've experienced it, I think twice now with your family. And one of the things I really appreciate about it that I like that's different too than if I were to compare it to normal, it is nothing like a normal workout. And it's actually, I think it lasts like almost three hours. But it's a lot more talking and it's, and it's connecting and it's, but it's this law, which what I love about that is we're not eating, we're not eating because there's no food around.  Oh, back to lifting a little bit. And it turns into this like three hour, you know, semi fitness type of event that we're doing where I'm not eating food. I'm not sitting down. I'm connecting with family. I'm moving and burning calories. I'm sending a signal to build muscle. I really, really love this is like this cool traditional thing that you guys have done. And I've been lucky enough to be a part of it a couple of times. And that's what I find is different. It's not what I have done in the past where it's like it's a workout, right? So, oh, it's another workout where I get after it. It's like, no, no, no, you've really turned it into more about connecting with the family. And therefore it doesn't matter that it gets stretched out for three hours or whatever because we're just having, we're having fun. It's fun too. And it's probably going to start morphing because now everybody has little kids, you know. Kids will be running around. Well, no, what we might end up doing is bringing the babies together. And, you know, doing something that's like a, like maybe we'll do some strength challenges but in the meantime, we have our kids. Especially since we have this place, it's so perfect to have let them kind of run around and everyone take turns doing stuff and they get to see, you know.  Right. So it'll be kind of cool. But, you know, I like, I like, I used to love telling clients, okay, here's what we're going to do. The week before we're going to start your reverse diet. So the holiday is going to be a part of your reverse diet. And the goals in the gym have changed. Our goals in the gym are, let's see how strong we can get.  That's really hard. You just talked about what that looked like when you were getting ready for a show. It's part of the reverse diet, right? It's part of the getting stronger. And then when you go back to the gym, rather than worrying about the two pounds of water weight that you gain from the extra bread and carbs and whatever, you're like, oh my God, I get, I added five pounds to my bench press or 10 pounds to my deadlift. It's a great combination. I like to back it up even a little bit further. So if you start with like a little week or two week at the end of October, beginning of November, like a cut, and I like to do kind of an aggressive cut in that short week or two. And then I'm reversing out. And the part of the reversing out is leading into what you're talking about. So we're starting to slowly increase calories, leading into Thursday. And in addition to that, I'm switching up my training. So whatever I was currently doing before that, I'm transitioning into a new focus, typically love something that's strength related and then kind of come up that way. Even knowing that I'm probably going to intake, you know, over my, my, my caloric maintenance, the idea is that any of those extra calories, I'm hoping that a majority of them get partitioned over into building muscle and not just storing body. That's the goal. The goal is, can I take this extra fuel? And again, we started earlier with talking about good relationship with this. So this isn't binging. This isn't eating till you get sick, but you're going to eat more.  Why not take advantage of them within the context of a reverse diet? Because what a reverse diet is for people who don't know. In essence, it's the slow increasing of calories over time in combination with proper and appropriate strength training. Because the goal is to build muscle through a reverse diet and speed up the metabolism. So at the end of this process, if you reverse diet properly and incorporate the holidays in it, you could end up with a faster metabolism afterwards, which will make you getting lean easier because the challenge then becomes, how do I get lean if I did gain extra body fat after these holidays? The other thing that related to exercise that we do, even though, by the way, notice that nobody said anything about long bouts of cardio anywhere. We love to do this. And I get, I don't know, anywhere I think as little as three of my family members to as many as like seven of them have joined me before. But post-eating, I'll just go for a nice long one. Oh yeah. Just a nice stroll, like a nice long stroll. And again, more about connecting. Talking. And laughing, enjoying, telling stories, reminiscing. But going for a nice long walk after eating a big heavy meal like that. So good for your digestion. Oh, you feel so much better just by doing that. And it's not a lot to ask. I'm not saying I'm going to go for a run. I'm not saying I'm going to go push the weights. It's like we can go walk outside the weather in California around this time of the year is always beautiful too. So it's like the perfect temperature to go out there and walk for like a nice hour, hour and a half. I know some families play football. Yeah, we play tennis. Do you guys do that? Yeah. We used to play basketball. But too many injuries. I can't imagine my uncles and aunts play football. Basketball used to be a tradition. Yeah, it didn't last very long.  No, they don't really. Yeah. It's more just like touch at this point. Now, yes, we just throw the ball around and just try to run without like pulling hammies. So it's like, yeah, it's not like super rigorous or anything.  I do like. That's how the basketball or the walking came about for us. It used to be like this crazy like basketball tournament thing. It was a competitive. Yeah, very competitive. And we've now been, we've been walking for the last like four years. So it's been a while since we've played like, I mean, I would love to do the basketball, but it's like there's always like one or two of us that probably shouldn't. We're not conditioned. So you know what the theme is though? Because here we just talked about the post Thanksgiving workout that I do with my cousins. There's like, you know, and brothers, right? There's like eight of us. You talked about the basketball football, but then you talk about walking. You're talking about hiking. Really what it's evolved into is the real value of the holidays, which is connecting and bonding with family. So the workout, the walk, the hike, it's not about the crazy workout. It's about being active, but using activity as a vehicle for connecting with your family and your friends. So the workout is not like, I'm going to go hit my arms and shoulders and all that stuff. We're going to use this as a vehicle to connect. And activity is a great way to do it. What you'll notice by the way, when you go on a walk with family members is the movement and the activity promotes wonderful connection and wonderful conversations.  Also keep in mind, if you're listening to this and you don't do any of these things, but you're hearing it going like, oh, I would love to do that. You just kind of be the leader in the family. Do not be discouraged just because maybe only one or two decide to join you the first year, because that's kind of what it looked like for me. It wasn't like everyone's like, yeah, let's all go work out.  I ain't going out there. Like that's going to happen. That's okay. Don't make a big deal about it. Like take whoever will do that with you. I think make it very easy to try and gain it. Because again, the main point for me is connecting with my family. So the nice walk and stroll is easier to convince a handful of people to go do that. And you're not saying, hey, you guys, we're going to go walk hella fast and do this. No, yeah, we're going to go outside. Yeah, we're going to go walk. You want to take a walk for me? And I guarantee you'll get a couple of family members that will connect and do that. And then what we've seen is over the time, over years, more and more of the family members want to be a part of it and do it. Totally. Now, another strategy that you can use appropriately, I'm going to say appropriately, because this could easily go in the other direction, is fasting. Fasting can be used properly and appropriately on days where you feast. So what does this mean? This means that Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner is coming, right? Some holiday get-together dinner or meal is coming. So why don't I not eat leading up to that? Like, why don't I not eat leading up to that? Now, here's where it could go wrong. If it feeds into the restrict binge behavior, because it could encourage you to binge even more because now you've given yourself permission. Held out and then all of a sudden now it's free reign. Right. But reality, what it is, is if you fast leading into the meal and the fast is more of this spiritual fast where I'm not eating and I'm thinking about the people I'm going to be with. I'm thinking about the value of my friends and family. I'm thinking about the meals that I haven't had since last year and I'm going to enjoy them and really savor them. What happens with the fast is it heightens your senses. It provides a little bit of clarity and actually improves your ability to savor meals.  So it can actually make that meal much more enjoyable. So I like using fasting in this particular way. So we're kind of dancing between general advice and then probably more of the advanced health and fitness person who has a good relationship with exercise and food because and I think that's important to make that clear as we talk about this because I'll share like almost exactly like what my protocol will look like heading in. That's not necessarily what I would recommend to my client because maybe they're not there yet because I totally agree that the fasting could be a good strategy but if you don't have a good relationship then you just- You can easily abuse. Yeah, you can easily abuse it. So I personally like to go on a pretty hard cut for two weeks and so reverse engineers back so like three weeks out. So this would be the end of October. I will start a pretty hard two-week cut where I restrict more calories than I normally would. And then I give myself a nice week and a half or so leading into Thanksgiving which gives me that time to slowly control my calories back in and I don't feel like I'm having to come from a hard cut. I would never do a hard cut right into there because then even with my discipline I know that would promote the overeating. So I want the hard cut at least three, four weeks out before the Thanksgiving week and then I'm slowly introducing calories leading up the reverse dieting and then the day of Thanksgiving is actually I'm gonna try and hold out on eating anything until the main meal. That's exactly what I do. And when the main meal happens, I enjoy.  I also fast after the main meal.  And then on their own by themselves. No more connecting with family or whatever. Now it's just- Gorge shoveling your things. Yeah, gorge on. Exactly. So I even will fast afterwards knowing that, well, I just I overate and also that was the value of that meal and I'm by myself now. So there's no value now and me sitting here eating all this food and not connecting with them by myself. So then I also do a fast afterwards. So there's definitely a healthy way to use fasting but it's not the avoidance of calories aspect of it. It's really the going into the meal with kind of clarity, right? And the side effect being I eat less calories as a result of it. It's really the side effect. So this a lot. And again, I love saying this part.  If you go into these holiday meals consciously saying to yourself, I'm going to savor because think of a picture in your mind right now what it looks like for somebody to savor a bite of food. Okay. It's not rushed. It's not fast. It's not washing it down with water or a drink, right? It's like if you have a picture like it's, it's enjoying the senses. It's enjoying the flavor and the smell and the texture. So it's just kind of slow process. If you are going into what that mindset is saying, I'm going to test this out. I heard Sal say this on the podcast. I'm going to savor the meals that I'm going to eat in these holidays. If you go into it fasted, it's going to enhance your ability to savor because it does upregulate your perception of flavors and taste. Anybody knows this, right? You eat a lot of candy all the time. Candy starts to lose its value. You eat a lot of sweets. You eat a lot of anything. Starts to lose its value. If you haven't had it in a while, it all of a sudden has this different, you have this different, stronger perception. It's really cool experience. Like when I first did this and I was savoring the meals, it was like this explosion of experience that I had that I hadn't experienced before. So fasting can definitely be a part of all of this. Now, are there mechanistic aspects that you can make with your, with your, with your meals?  But I think what we talked about today is probably the root, right? The most important parts of all of this. People really honestly only get in a lot of trouble when you get out of control. It is very difficult, by the way. You become unaware.  Most people can't even get 10,000 calories. So that's not, that's not enough for you to put five pounds of fat on your body. So you actually. What it is, it's the mentality that's leading after. All the other holidays. That's right. It's what happens. It's not so much what happens on that day. It's what that kick starts. Because all of a sudden you go into this like I was restricting hard. I overindulge.   Because all Christmas is in a month anyway. And that's right. And that's where all the day. 100%. This is why I like to use fasting afterwards. Because another way that fasting can be used in a healthy way is it can be a reset. And what I mean by that is if you've ever, all of us experience this, right? Where we eat a particular way and then we find that we crave those foods. There's actually studies on this where people will eat like fast food. And then they find that they crave the fast food more and more as the receptors in the brain change, as the body starts to model itself after these particular types of foods. So fasting after helps prevent exactly that, Adam. It's not Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. It's Thanksgiving plus the weeks leading up to Christmas, plus the weeks leading to New Year's. It's that entire period of time when people really screw up. Now here's the deal. If you want to help on some of this in guidance, I know this episode is helping everybody or can help everybody. But if you want more specifics, we have an intuitive nutrition guide that helps with relationship to food. We have a reverse dieting 101 book which helps you with reverse dieting and explains how to do it. And then we have an intermittent fasting guide which kind of breaks down the different forms of fasting and the different ways you use fasting. All three of those are gonna be 50% off with this episode because we know that although this episode can help people out, a lot of people need more specifics. They need more reference. They need more help to help them through this process. So again, all three of them are 50% off. You can find them at mapsfitnessproducts.com and the code is healthy for the 50% off. This one's really important and that is to phase your training. If somebody trains for a full year doing a bench press and they're always aiming for five reps, if you compared that person to a person who did bench press where they did three or four weeks of five reps but then they did three or four weeks of 12 reps and three or four weeks of let's say 15 to 20 reps and then they'll throw in some supersets, at the end of that year, you're gonna see more consistent progress from the person who's moving in and out and less injury. That's another thing. You'll see less injury as well.


Welcome friends. So continuing with our series on problem solving, let's try and solve this problem. So it's given that x squared plus 1 pi x squared is 27. This is the given information and basis this information, you have to find out what's the value of x plus 1 upon x and x minus 1 upon x. So let's start with the first one. So what is given? It's given that x squared plus 1 upon x squared is equal to 27. Now if you remember, we have seen such identity or such terms before and such terms were expressed in let's say a plus b whole square was there it is. So when it was a plus b whole square, it's a square plus 2 a b plus b square. Now if you see carefully, there is a power 2 here and in the final term, there is power 1 on x. Similarly, here it is 2 and then it has to be reduced to 1, right? So hence, if you see if we square the target here, that means what is the target? Target is x plus 1 upon x, right? If you square this term up here, what will you get? You will get x squared plus 2 times x times 1 by x plus 1 upon x whole square, isn't it? So if you see, this is nothing but x plus 1 upon x if I square and I am using this identity over here will be equal to what? x squared plus 2 plus 1 upon x squared, right? This x and this x can be cancelled, right? And ideally it should be given that x is not equal to 0. So assuming x is not equal to 0, you can cancel that, right? Now obviously x cannot be 0. Why if x is 0 then it cannot be equal to 27 here? This expression cannot be 27. So clearly you know that x is not equal to 0. So this cancellation is allowed. Why am I insisting upon ensuring that x is not equal to 0 is division by 0 is not defined in mathematics, okay? Now if you see, you get a term in the right hand side x square plus 1 upon x square plus 2, isn't it? I have just rearranged this right hand side here. Now if you see, x square plus 1 upon x square is already given. What's the value? The value is 27. It's given, right? So hence this total is 27 plus 2 and hence it is 29, right? So what do we observe? We see that x plus 1 upon x whole square is how much? 29. So I will do what? Square rooting both sides. Square rooting both sides. What will you get? You will get x plus 1 upon x is equal to plus or minus square root of 29. Why plus and minus? Because if you square these two terms here, if you square this, you should come back to here. So whether it is plus 20, root 29 or minus root 29, you will, squaring will get you 29. So square root. So you know whenever there's an equation, something like this where x square is let's say something like A, then x is nothing but plus minus root of A. So that's what we did. So we square root both sides and we get that and that was what was expected. So x plus 1 by x value is root over plus minus root over 29. Now let's get back to the second question. Second question is x minus 1 by x with the same given conditions. So the given condition is x square plus 1 upon x square is equal to 27. You have to find out what? x minus 1 by x. So if you square x minus 1 by x, what will you get? You will get x square minus 2 times x times 1 upon x plus 1 upon x whole square, isn't it? Squaring this will give you this much. Now that means what? This is nothing but x squared plus 1 upon x squared minus 2 because again x is not equal to 0. So this x can go. So this is the final result. But x square plus 1 by x square was given as to be 27. So 27 minus 2 is 25, isn't it? So that means x minus 1 by x whole square is 25. So square rooting both sides like what we did in the previous question will be plus or minus under root 25 which is nothing but plus or minus 5 because under root 25 is 5. So hence we see x minus 1 by x value is plus minus 5. So this is how you have to solve such problems. So what did we learn? We learned using algebraic identities for evaluating algebraic expressions. So keep this particular method in mind.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that the number of television sets which is denoted by capital X in a family chosen at random has following probability distribution find the average number of television sets in the family that is expected value of capital X let us start with the solution of the given question here we are given a table that shows probability distribution for the number of television sets that is capital X we have to find the average number of television sets in the family that is the expected value of capital X we know that if capital X is a random variable with possible values denoted by small x i and probability of small x i that is probability of capital X is equal to small x i denotes its probability distribution then expected value of capital X which is denoted by mu is equal to summation of small x i into probability of small x i where i varies from 1 to n so here we have expected value of capital X will be equal to summation of small x i into probability of small x i where i varies from 1 to n and here we will have expected value of capital X will be equal to summation of small x i into probability of small x i where i varies from 1 to 345 that is 5 and here this is equal to 0 into 0.01 plus 1 into 0.34 plus 2 into 0.19 plus 3 into 0.24 plus 4 into 0.22 and this is equal to 0 into 0.01 is 0 plus 1 into 0.34 is 0.34 plus 2 into 0.19 that is 0.38 plus 3 into 0.24 that is 0.72 plus 4 into 0.22 that is 0.88 and this is equal to 2.32 so expected value of capital X is equal to 2.32 which is approximately equal to 2 thus average number of television sets in our family is 2 approximately which is the required answer this completes our session hope you enjoyed this session