The things that we also learned last week is powers. So we're also going to also include the powers in our communication and discussion. When it comes to powers, only when it is multiplication and multiplication and division, then we rely on the basis. If the bases are the same, you're either going to add or subtract the powers. If we're dealing with addition and subtraction, then we need to talk about like terms. And the like terms are the things that looks exactly the same or similar to one another. And therefore we can add the like terms together. We can subtract the like terms together as well. So let's look at this question number one. It says simplify the following expression as far as possible. So therefore it means simplify this until there is no way you are able to simplify it any further. And one thing for sure that I forgot to do is to record the session. And I see that someone already started the recording on our behalf. I don't know who started the recording, but I hope it's Adele. If it's any of the students who started the recording please let me know because just let me know who started the recording because we will need to have access to that recording. Okay, otherwise let's continue. So now always when you solve expression also, remember the BOTMAS rule, right? BOTMAS says brackets first before addition, subtraction, exponent or powers and addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. That's what we need to do first.  And always remember that division and multiplication have the same priority if they appear on the same equation or formula we work from left to right. Also addition and subtraction have the same priority we work from left to right. So yeah, we have six A squared minus nine AB plus two B squared minus three times B A minus B squared. We first need to get rid of the bracket. So to get rid of the bracket, we are left with six A squared minus nine AB plus two B squared. And we're going to multiply with the negative sign that is in front or the minus that is in front of three. So we say minus three times three B A. We're going to also rearrange B A and start with A because letters of alphabets say A, B, C, D. So we just want to rearrange that as well as we work through. So this will be minus three times B A will be minus three AB. I'm just rearranging B A by writing A first. Next, we need to multiply by minus three into minus B squared. So minus three times minus B squared, negative times negative becomes positive and the answer will be three B squared. Now we need to look for like times. In terms of this, six A A squared, it's on its own six A squared. I'm just going to rearrange this so that I put the like times together.  You don't have to do this step. Save time in the exam. I'm just showing you some of the ways that you can do to identify things quickly. B squared plus three B squared. Or you can also just highlight them and answer the question. So this will be six A squared minus nine AB, minus three AB because they are the same. We can add or subtract. So minus nine, minus three, it's minus 12. AB and plus two B squared, plus three B squared. They are like times. So plus two, plus three is plus five B squared. And the answer is option number two. Answer will be option number two. And that's how you're going to answer questions when they give you expressions and ask you to simplify them to their simplest form. Let's look at another expression unless if you have any question. Remember also the sessions are interactive. It's not going to be me only talking. At some point you will have to unmute and talk to me, right? And if you have any question while I'm explaining things and you're getting lost, just unmute and let me know and ask your question so that then we don't leave anyone behind. Okay, so let's look at exercise two. Simplify the following expression as far as possible. So here as well, we are given an expression of four times the root of 64 squared, 64 X to the power of 16. Now, the other thing you need to also remember when it comes to the roots or the squares and all that you can also simplify by changing the root to a power. So what do we mean by that? We know that a root which is also the same as the square root. So a root without a number in front is the same as the square root. If the square root is written like this, we can also write the square root as a power. So we know that the caravan is the same as one over as the caravan and the number in front of the caravan is what goes in the fraction. And this we can write it as the power. So because I ran out of space there, this square root is the same as a number to the power of, sorry, I wrote it wrong actually as well. Right there, it should be two. The square root can be written as a value to the power of a half. So if let's say here it was an A, therefore it will be A to the power of a half. So if it was the quadro root of B, we can write this as B to the power of one over four. What happens when it is the quadro root? I'm gonna use quadro root of B to the power of a half. You also still need to say this will be one over, sorry, because our B is to the power of A half. And sorry about my flicking chart to the power of one over four. That's all what you need to always remember. A cube root, a square root, a quadro root, whatever root that you will have, you can always say two as the power of that root of a fraction. So coming back to our put equation here. Now we can also break this equation to make it easy for us to understand and unpack it into different parts. So we're going to say four multiplied by the root of 64. I'm going to break everything that is underneath the root into different parts, because a square root of a number, we can find it using a calculator. And the next one will be the root of X to the power of 60. Now, because I have three different equations, I can then just say four multiplied by, what is the square root of 64? What will be that number that when we multiply that number by itself two times, it will give us 64 and that number is eight. Yes. And multiply by, and this we can change it to X to the power of 16 to the power of one over two. Now, because we have X to the power of 16 times the power of a half, we can take 16 multiplied by one over two, right? Two goes one time into two and it goes eight times into 16, eight times one is eight over one, which is the same as eight. That's one way of answering the question as well. So we can simplify it that way. So that will be four times eight. It's how much? 32. It's 32 and X to the power. And we said everything at the power we solved it, it's X to the power of eight. And the answer is option number two. Let's see if you are able to answer this question. So here is your question, question three. I'll give you three minutes. Are we winning? Yes, ma'am. I put my answer in the chat. I see that. Others, are we winning? Are we getting there? Or are we lost? They say asked and it shall be given. So if you ask back and you don't know how to answer it, please ask, ask for help. Yeah, so let's see how we answer it. Now it's your chance to speak so that I can be quiet. See that there are. Please don't forget to complete the register. I see Adele says you must also put your student number on the chat. I think for those who are unable to see the chat, then it might be a little bit difficult. Okay. So who wants to do this? Anyone? Okay ma'am, I will go. Next. Okay, so what I did was I took what is in the brackets first and obviously because it's to the power of two, I then said the P to the power of two then becomes P to the power of eight. And then I took the one over three and I just put it to the board. Like I'm saying, so I said six times one over three, P to the power of eight gives me eight, two P eight. But I also looked at it again and I also saw if I take what's in the bracket like the one over three and I also times that by two. Like if I take the whole number that's in the bracket and I times that by two, it still gives me, like for example, it will still give me the same answer because it's the same principle that's being applied. Okay. So let's do it step by step so that we don't get confused. So we first need to get the bracket. Remember, Otmas is our friend. Brackets first. So brackets, there's nothing we can do with the brackets because there's nothing inside the bracket that we need to work with. The next one is exponents or powers which are represented by O which is the next thing. So the next thing is for us to simplify the exponents. So to do that, we say six, multiply by and we're going to distribute two into the whole bracket. Three to the power of two, multiply by P to the power of four times two which is to the power of two. And what do we have now? You also need to go back to the powers and understand the principles of the powers. So we say in terms of the powers, if I have X over Y to the power of N is the same as X to the power of N divided by Y to the power of N, you can distribute that power into all the values that you have in your fraction. So we can do the same. So one over three to the power of two, we can write it as six times one squared divided by three squared multiplied by and I can already solve this side. It's P to the power of eight. Now we are left with six times what this one squared is one over three squared. What is three squared? Three squared is three times three which is equals to nine times P to the power of eight. Now six times one or we can simplify. Remember, there's a fraction multiplying. So we can also do the following. We can treat six over one times one over nine by saying what is the number that can divide into six and three or simplify into six and three? That is a three. Three goes into six, two times and it goes into nine, three times and the answer here will be two times one will give us two, one times three will give us three and therefore the answer for this question will be two over three P to the power of eight which is option number one. And that's how you're going to simplify expressions to their simplest form. Are there any questions? If there are no questions, then now let's move into... Sorry Elizabeth. Yes. For myself, I don't know if it's going to cause confusion for me when I'm busy with the exams because what I normally do is I would simplify it using this second step and then I'll just calculate the numbers with the calculator. Yeah, it's fine. If you're using a calculator, you can use your numbers. The numbers you can use your calculator, you don't have to do it manually. So you can take your calculator and calculate six times one over three to the power of two, it will give you the answer. I'm doing it manually because I don't have my... I don't have a calculator in front of me and we're not working with big numbers that will require me to use a calculator. But yeah, in the exam, go ahead, use a calculator. So now you're not dealing with fractions, we're going to equations. To solve equation, the purpose of solving equation is to find an unknown number, is to find an unknown number, possibly. So for example, if you're given an equation with only one variable, which means the number we don't know because it's a placeholder, it's a number that we all don't know what that number is unless we calculate that number. And the simplest way of it is to solve that equation to find the missing number. So when you solve equations, I've already in the beginning, when we started, I've told you, whatever you do on the left, you must do on the right, whatever you do on the right, you must do on the left. Or when you move things across the equal sign, the sign will change. If it was minus, it will be plus, if it was plus, it becomes minus. If it's dividing, you multiply. If it's multiplying, you divide to get rid of that number. Those are the principles that you always need to remember when solving equations, not also forgetting about mass. But I can't say for exponents and expressions, division, multiplication, they've got the same priority. We're working from left to right, but they have priority over addition and subtraction. And addition and subtraction have the same priority. We also work from left to right, irregardless of the equation that we have. So when we have equations like this, we need to distribute the value outside of the brackets, because if x plus one, x, we don't know what it is, we cannot edit to one. The same way as x minus two, we cannot edit x minus two, we cannot subtract them to one another because we don't know what x is. So we can solve the bracket, but we can distribute to remove the bracket. So we distribute three into the bracket in order for us to remove that bracket.  Like terms together. When it's an equality sign, it doesn't matter whether you leave things on the left, sorry, whether you leave things on the left or you move them over to the right, but I always prefer things to move to the left. So let's move everything that has an x to the left and everything that does not have an x to the right. So three x, three x on this side, it's minus three x, when it comes this side, it will be plus three x is equals to five, plus six, and we move three and four to the other side, they are both minus, so we can say minus three, minus four. And you could have already simplified them here by saying three plus four is seven and move only minus seven to the other side, the same way five plus six is 11, you could just write the answer there, but I just like to complicate my life, so I'm gonna put it this way. Three x plus three x is six x, five plus six is 11, minus three is nine, 11 minus three is eight, minus four, you are not mad, it's four. And we just need to only be left with x on this side, so therefore we're going to divide this side by six and divide this side by six, six and six cancel out and you will be left with four over six on the other side, but there is a number that can go into four and also into six, so two goes two times into four and it goes three times into six and the answer will be two over three, which is option two. Easy, right? Easy, straightforward, easy, peasy. What happens when you get equations? And that looks like this, that looks so, as if like they are so confusing and they are not. As long as you remember the principle, if it's dividing, you need to multiply everything by that number. Whatever you do on the left, you must also do on the right. Now, the challenge here is you have two x over five minus x over three is equals to one over two. You cannot do the subtraction here or you can. It's up to you how there are many ways you can solve this. You can treat this as a fraction and solve this fraction on the left and once you have the answer for this fraction on the left, then you can simplify and find the x value. So let's do that. We're gonna do this two times two ways. Let's see if we get the same answer doing it two ways. So the first way is we treat this as a fraction. So we're going to solve two x over five minus x over three on the left. We're only going to treat the left hand side first. So two x over five minus x over three. Now I need to find the common denominator. Remember, it's addition and subtraction. We need to find the common denominator and the common denominator here is 15. Five goes how many times into 15? It goes five, 10, 15, three times two. Three times two is six x minus five. Three goes how many times into 15? It goes five times five times x is five x. And now what do we have? We will have six x minus five. It will be x over 15. Now, this is our left hand side. So if our left hand side is x over 15 equals to a half, then let's get rid of 15. We multiply the side by 15, multiply the side by 15 and therefore we will get 15 and 15 cancel out. You get x is equals to 15 over two. Remember, a fraction to simplify it to the lowest form until it's known that can be simplified is to convert a improper fraction to a mixed fraction. So two goes how many times into 15? It goes two, four, until you get to seven. So it goes seven times and the remainder will be one over two and the answer is option one. That's the first, the other way of doing this, right? The other way of doing this is we have two x over five minus x over three. So I'm gonna call this option one. And this is option two of answering the same question, right? x over three is equals to one over two. Now, because two over five is on the first one, what we need to do in order to get rid of two over five, we're going to multiply by two by the inverse of two over five on across. So it means we're going to say five over two multiply by two over five x minus, we also need to do it there. So five over two times x over three equals one over two times five over two. So because we want to get rid of the first two over five so that we are left with x. So that and that will cancel out. You will be left with x minus. And at the top here, we will have five x over six is equals to five over four, right? Because it's one times two, one times five and two times two is four. Now, the next is to get rid of the five over x. Now, because in order for us to get rid of this, it means we're going to multiply. It's going to be a non everlasting cycle of getting this multiplied by that multiplied by that again and all that. So we need to do that. So in order for us to get rid of five over x, we can treat this as a fraction because they are like times, right? Because five minus five x is a like time. So yeah, the common denominator is six because this is the same as x over one. So this will be six x minus five x. And therefore you will be left with x over six, five over four and we get rid of six by multiplying by six this side, multiply by six that side. And that will give us six and six will cancel out. You will be left with x, four goes two times into four. Two goes two times into four and it goes three times into three and your five times three is 15 over two, which is the same as seven, one over two. You can go the complex route or the simple route, it's up to you.   The other way of answering equation is to making something a subject of the formula. And yeah, it is when, yeah, it is when you have multiple variables multiple unknown placeholders in your equation or your expression and we need to change the subject of the formula. So the subject of the formula, for example, with the exercises that we were doing, our subject of the formula here is x. When a variable is on its own, on the left hand side, we call that a subject of that formula or expression that it's on the right. So in order for us to change the subject of the formula, the same principle happens, whatever you do on the right, you do on the left, left, right. If you move things across, if it's dividing, you multiply, if it's multiplying, you divide. If it's a plus, it becomes subtraction. If it's subtracting, it becomes an addition. Those are the same principle, nothing changes. Done, going for, if we need to solve this formula. If S is equals to P times one plus RT, which is your simple interest formula for future value, future value of a simple interest. Make R the subject of the formula and therefore it means here they're asking you to make the rate, the subject of the formula. We want to calculate what the rate is, what the interest rate is, the simple interest rate will be. So in order for us to calculate that, you can see that R is inside the bracket and in the bracket, R is multiplying with a T. So in order for us to make R the subject of the formula, we need to remove certain things. So let's go, S is equals to P times one plus RT. The first thing that we need to get rid of is the P. So we divide the side by P, therefore it means we divide the side by P. P and P cancels out. Then you are left with one plus RT on the right hand side. The left hand side is over P. Now we need to get rid of one to the other side as well. This side we will be left with RT and when we move one to this side, it's S over P minus one. We can also change the equation. Let's rewrite it because it's an equal sign. So therefore it says the right is the same as the left. So we can also say RT is equals to S over P minus one. It will be the same thing because it's whether we write it on the left or on the right. There was still balance. Okay, so now we can solve for R. So solving for R, we need to get rid of T. Therefore it means we divide by T on one side, we divide by T on the other side. And T and T will cancel out. You are left with R and this will be S over P minus one over T. Now looking at this, you might think, oh yeah, there is no answer, yeah. How did she do it? Right, so we can create this S over P minus one divide by one, divide by T. You can rewrite it because this is a division, all right? Sorry. This is a division. So a division, we can write this as S over P minus one. And I'm gonna put it in the bracket and I'm gonna put the divide by, remember, now this is divide by T, right? What do we remember about fractions? Because if I convert this to a fraction, then I can keep the first S over P minus one and I can multiply and we change this to one over T, right? That's what we can do. We can keep, flip. So when we flip, it becomes one over T and we can then cross multiply with a T across because it's multiplying. So T will multiply with P, then you will have S over T minus one times one is one divide by, because this is the same as one divide by one will be over T and the answer will be option number four. So you need to apply your mind. I know that it's very confusing. You need to think outside of the box sometimes when you solve equations, especially when it comes to a equation like this, where you need to make something the subject of the formula as well and looking at the options, you need to apply your mind to say, am I at the end? If not, if there is no answer on there, it might be that you did the calculation but you did them wrong and you might find the answer. It doesn't mean that it's correct, right? But you need to think when you get two answers like this because we could have stopped at that point, at this point and looked for the answer here and would have penned and said, but there is no answer and usually sometimes in some exam papers they have option number five and they call it none of the above. And you might think that that is the answer and it's not because the answer is on there. You just needed to do a little bit of calculations as well or manipulations as well. While we're still talking about expression and equations, sometimes you might be given a sentence and you are asked to take a part or a paragraph or a sentence and convert it into a mathematical expression. So you need to also know those. Don't lose marks because it might be that you are losing four marks out of this and this is the easiest question that you can have, right? So don't lose marks by just not knowing how to answer questions like this. A father is three years older than five times the son's age. The father is three years older than five times the son's age. Suppose the father is ex-old, given expression in X for the son's age. And I said these things are very easy to answer, not necessarily, especially when it comes to literal equations like this. That's why you need to think long and hard on this type of questions because they can be as tricky as they are. So if we know that the father is ex, the father's age is ex, right? But we also know that the father is three years older than five times the son's age. So if the father's age is ex, therefore the father will be five times older than the son, but will be three years older. Therefore it means when it comes to the son, or not five, three, the son will be three years younger. So because the son is three years younger, the age will have to also be subtracted from the father's age. So the son is three years younger. So if the father's age is ex, the son will be three years younger because the father is three years older than five times the father's age.  I'm quiet because this is tricking me. It's getting me. So if we write it in this way, therefore it means the father is five times the son's age. So if the son's age is five, right? Five times the son's age, but the father is three years older than five times the son's age. So let's assume that the son's age is y. So the father will be three times that number. But we also know that he is older. I'm gonna put the three, right? And if this is the father, the father's age, right? So when we want to find the son's age, because that's what we want to find the son's age, but in relation to x, right? So it means we need to solve for y. So solving for y, we need to take three x will minus three onto the other side, which is correct as I did it. But then we need to divide by five. So we'll need to divide by five. So we're not going to multiply by five, because if we multiply this, we multiply in the father's age, that will be multiplied by five. So that is, yes, that's how you will answer it. So you need to go back and think about it. Because here it says the father is three years older than five times the son's age. So we don't know what the son's age is. I'm just gonna put the son's age as y. So five times the son's age, that's the father, but and also there is three year older, five times the son, so plus three. Suppose the father is x. So here is the father's age. The father's age is equals to five times the son's age plus three years, because it's all three year older than the son, unless, yes, yes, it's still right. So to find the son, we need to solve for y. So we will move three to the other side. That would mean x minus three. Therefore the son will be five times the son will be three year older than the father. But we also need just the son's age. So we need to get rid of the five and get ridding of the five. It means we divide by five. So probably the answer is option four. At some point I also thought that it might be option two. It might be that I'm doing this wrong. If it can be option four, if the following scenario happens this becomes five times y plus three. Then it will be option two, because then we're saying it's five times the son's age plus three, whichever one. And therefore it will be x divided by five and you will be left with y plus three on the other side. Therefore it will be minus three is equals to one. That will be the answer which will mean that option two is correct, not option four. But that is how you will read the questions. I don't know how to answer this one. It might be me confused. But yeah, that's how you will answer weighted questions. Now let's go back to another question. Sorry, there are no other expression questions. So those are ratios and the linear equations. We're not touching that. And let's find more exercises so that you are able to do a lot of exercises. So this exam paper doesn't look good at all. It's very blurry. Okay, so here is your question.  Gahisa, Degeleri, and Tavo. Gahiso is, or is it Gahiso Gahisa now? Gahiso gets twice as much as his sister Degeleri. Degeleri gets 100 grand less than Tavo. Suppose Tavo gets x, then Gahisa gets x. How much does Gahiso get in terms of x? That's your exercise. Let's see if you are able to get that. I'm gonna give you five minutes to deal with that. And I will catch up, are you? And then we'll do it together. Are we winning? Ma'am, I'm not sure. I'm confused, but I think according to like, maybe how we worked at the previous one, then it could be option two. I'm not sure, but yeah, yeah. That is what I'm kind of getting. Let's read that question and then see if we are able to make sense of it. So we know that the money is divided that amongst the three children, you know? And Gahiso gets twice as much as Degeleri. So there is Gahiso. He gets twice as much as Degeleri, right? And we know that Degeleri, who is our G, gets 100 run less than table. This table minus 100. We are also told that table, let table become x. So we're going to change table to x minus 100, right? What we want to know is, or what they want to know is how much does gonna convert it back to D? D is equals to x minus 100. How much is Gahiso get in terms of x? Now, Gahiso gets twice as much as Degeleri. So therefore Gahiso will get two times Degeleri, which is D is x minus 100. And there is your answer. Yes, man, that was my first answer. And then I felt really confused and I thought, like, is that gonna be right? Because it's like, shouldn't we do it the same where we did the other one? But now I know I should just go with my understanding and not doubt myself. Yeah, sometimes it's easy. When you read the question and write out the fact that are given in terms of how you understand the question is being asked. It makes it easier to understand it. With this one, the thing that made the question more tricky is the mention of three years older and five times, where are we now? Three years older than five times the age of the sun. And they say the sun's age, but they say it represented in terms of the father's age of x, right? So it makes it a little bit difficult or really, we could have already also said, if the father's age is x, so we'll know that y will be, maybe we need to re-look at this as well. Y, which is the sun's age will be x plus three, but now because we know that it's not gonna be because we know that the sun's age is x plus three, then, or maybe we need to use father. Three years older than five times, then we can put the five in front or something like that, which makes it a little bit difficult to understand, right? Then with the first one, with the second one that we do it, because yeah, the second one, it's straightforward. They tell you that Cajizo gets twice as much as Degeleri. We are able to write it out as an equation. Degeleri gets less than Kabul. We are able to write there what Degeleri gets, because it gets less than what Kabul gets. And we are also told that Tavo is x, so we can replace Tavo with x on this equation, and then substitute back Degeleri's amount onto Cajizo, because then we know that Cajizo gets twice as much as Degeleri and Degeleri gets less than what Kabul gets, which is that equation, which is easy. So I hope in the exam they give you questions like this, which are straightforward. Okay. Thanks, ma'am. Your next exercise, simplify the expression as far as possible. This is x times x minus two, minus two times one, minus x squared, times x times x minus four x. Now, sometimes you get confused when you have an x after the brackets. What I can suggest you do is take the x and multiply it with the two first. So that will be x times x minus two, minus two x times one, minus x squared, minus four x, and then it will be easy for you to solve the equation. That's your chance to do that, and then we can talk about the answer. Are we winning? Yes, ma'am. Are we done? No. Are you guys there? Okay, so let's answer the question. Let's distribute. Sorry, ma'am, I'm here. Okay, so it's two x minus x, minus two x plus, oh, sorry, ma'am. Okay, I don't know where you are at right now. Let's distribute the x into the bracket, the first one. Yes, so it's x squared minus two x and then minus two x plus x two x cubed minus four x. And then if we take it according to putting it in order, like mathematical order, then it will be, we'll take the two x cubed and then we'll add all the, like there's only one x squared, so it will be plus x squared. And then we'll take all the other terms which is like terms, which is the minus two, minus two, so it's minus two x, minus two x, minus four x, which gives us minus eight x. No, ma'am, not that, yes. So the option one is the answer. Thank you. Your next question. Are we done? Yes, ma'am. Ma'am. Can I go ahead, ma'am? Yes, you can. Okay, so according to my understanding of the law of exponents, when it comes to square roots, you divide whatever the power is, for example, like b to the power of eight will become b to the power of four times by b to the power of eight and b and b stays b and then you add the exponents, which will be 12. So b12, so that will be option three. Yes, you can do that. You can also, because it's multiplication, you can also just multiply both of them. So it's b to the power of eight times b to the power of 16. And because they've got the same powers, you can just add, sorry, they've got the same basis. You can add the powers, so that will be 24. And we can take b to the power of 24 to the power of a half, which two goes one time and it goes 12 times and b's to the power of 12, which is the same we could have already from here, set b to the power of eight to the power over half times b to the power of 16 to the power over half. And we could have solved this two goes one time into two and it goes four times into eight times b goes eight times into 16. And therefore it will be b to the power of four plus eight, which is equals to b to the power of 12, whichever way you feel comfortable using the, of solving the expressions and equations, use that. So there are many ways you can answer the same question. The fact is in all those many ways, you still need to get to the same answer. Your next exercise, are we winning? Are we there? I can't believe that out of all the people, I only communicate with one person. Oh, guys, that's not fair. Are you guys here? Yes, we are. At least because it might be that you connected, but you are not here with us. You left the session. You are somewhere in the kitchen or somewhere watching TV and I'm just here alone with Michelle. Let's answer this question. Are you done? Ma'am, I'm not done. I'm lost. So I need a home. So it's almost similar to the one that we did previously. Remember, you need to first distribute the power of three into the whole bracket first because we have half A to the power of two, B to the power of three. So we just going to say two times one over two to the power of three by just distributing the three. A times, I can put the multiply by A to the power of two to the power of three times B to the power of three to the power of three. And we can solve this by saying two times one cubed is one. What is two to the power of three? It's eight because it's two times two times two. It's eight times A to the power two times three is six. And times B three times three is nine. Therefore, two goes one time into two and it goes four times into eight. One times one is one. One times four is four. A to the power of six, B to the power of nine, which is option two. Easy, right? What the following equation means make A the subject of the formula. When you are done, please let me know when you are done. So I don't have to ask you, are you done? I just want to hear how many people are done. Okay, I'll wait to hear a couple of more people. Done, babe. No, okay. Others, you can also type in the check. Okay. Oh, okay. So at least four people they look for it means a lot of you are done. Okay, who wants to try it? Okay, I'll try. Okay. First of all, I simply, I took what is on the left and I, I mean, what is on the right to the left? But I first simplified the brackets on my right. Okay, let's simplify the brackets. Okay, so the two times three is six. And then two times negative five A is minus 10 A. This will remain as is, okay? And then? Yes, and then I, the minus four A and then I took the 10 A and then it's going to be a positive plus 10 A and then it will be equal to six minus seven. And then I have six A on my left and then I have one. So I would divide by six, two, two, two. So it's minus one because it will take the sign of a bigger number, right? Yeah. So divide by six, divide by six, six and six, cancel. So it's number four. That would be nice. Okay. Hey. Yes, girl. Your next, solve the following equation. Five over nine X plus one over three is equals to five over six X. Same, right? When you are done, let me know. Ma'am, I'm struggling with this one. So others, I see you are all quiet as well. So let's get you unstuck so that we only left with 10 minutes before the end of the session. Okay, so this, you have X on the left, X on the right. So we put the items together. So five over nine X minus five over six X and we take the one without an X to the left, which will be minus one over three. What follows? We can solve the fraction. What is the common denominator between nine and six? Three. Mm-mm. Three, nine cannot divide into three. It's 18, right? Nine can go into 18 and six can go into 18, right? So the common denominator will be 18. Nine goes how many times into 18? It goes two times because nine plus nine is 18. Two times five, it's 10 X. Six goes how many times into 18? Six, 12, 18, three times. Three times five, it's 15 X is equals two minus one over three. Solve the top part, 10 X minus 15. It's minus five X over 18 is equals two minus one over three. Did you at least get to that stage? Now we need to get rid of minus five over 18 by multiplying by minus 18 over five. On that side, we also need to multiply by minus 18 over five on the other side. That will cancel out. You will be left with X is equals two and we can solve the fraction. What is the common denominator between five and three? It's 15, three. Oh, actually we don't even have to find the common denominator because it's multiplication, all right? This is multiplication. We can simplify. Three goes how many times into three? It goes one time. It goes how many times into 18? Three, six, nine, 12, 15, 18, six times. It goes six times. Negative times negative is positive. Therefore, the answer here will be six over five because this is an improper fraction. Five goes how many times into six? It goes one time. The remainder will be one over five. And the answer is option one. And that is how you will solve equations. I will do this one for you. You don't have to do anything. Simplify the following expression as far as possible. This expression, actually, the thing here is missing is the division. It's a division. So solving this equation, I'm hoping that is a division because if it's a subtraction, then it's something else. Let's start with it as a minus. Let's not convert it to a fraction and see if it works out. So we need to do what is inside the brackets first. So we have 18x squared divided by four y. And here at the top will be minus three x times eight. What is three times eight? It's 24, right? 24x over. Four times nine. Nine plus nine is 18. 18 plus 18 is 36. 36, y. And we need to find the common denominator between 36 and it will be a very big number. And I thought it cannot be. What will be that number that both of those two numbers can divide into and not leave a reminder? 36 times. It's how much? Is it 36? So 34 can go into 36, nine times. Yes, ma'am. So that will be 36. 36, y. That will be the common denominator. Four goes how many times into 36? It goes nine times. Nine times. Nine times 18x squared. So nine times 18. It's 162x squared minus 36 goes one time into 36. So that will be minus 24x. And when they look at things, this is how far it gets. There is nothing you can do about it. There is nothing you can. So it must be divided by probability. Yeah, so that is not the subtraction, it is a division. Okay, so if that is a division, then we will have 18x squared over four, y. Divide. What did we say this was? 24x. 24x over 36, y. 36, y. Now keep, change, flip, right? Yes. 18x squared over four, y. Change the sign to a multiplication. Flip the numerator and the denominator. And now we can simplify. So what are the numbers that can divide into each one of them? So can six go into 18 and can it go into 24? Yes, ma'am. Yes, and okay, so six goes into 18 three times, right? And it goes into 24, four times. You want to have it right? Yes, and is there a number that can go into 36 and also go into four? So four can divide into 36. Yes, it goes nine times. So four goes one time into, and it goes nine times and y and y cancels out. But also we didn't cancel out because it's x squared. So yeah, the x will cancel the one x there. We will be left with only one of them. Is the same thing as x squared divide by x because it's division, we say x two minus one because there is the power of one, which is the same thing that we have there. And therefore the answer will be x to the power, no, x to the power of one, which is the same as x. So yeah, we will be left with only x. So three times nine, what is three times nine? Or is there any other number that can divide into those? Nope, three times nine is 27, 27x. And one times four is four. And the answer is option two. And that concludes our session for today. So you can go and do additional other exercises. So please, you can see that the majority of your first questions are more about expression and equations and all that. You cannot lose out on this max. They are very important. So eight questions already in one example includes expression and equation. So you cannot, others we dealt with. So also practice, questions like this, changing the subject of the formulas and all that. On the previous other papers, you can see that question one is about expression. So you just need to make sure that you know how to solve them about expression, about powers and expression. So you cannot miss out on this max. And that is another expression. And especially those ones where they are written in words, so you can see that this we will do next week. Next week we'll do areas. So please go and practice. On this other question paper, they do have a couple of them. Those who attended the session last week have access to these three past exam paper that I shared with you. Otherwise, I will see you next week. Are there any questions, comments, theories before we close this session? Any comments, questions? If there are no comments or questions, then I will see you next week. Same place, same time. When we deal with measurements. Those who are doing QMI, I will see you later today when we deal with questions relating to data handling at 12 o'clock. Other than that, have a lovely Saturday and if we can't enjoy yourself. See you next week. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye.


The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Chukomar Soludo winner of the Annambar State Governorship Elections after a supplementary election was conducted yesterday. The rubble that the Koi building collapsed has almost been completely evacuated. The families of the victims were almost seen hanging around. The venue are still hoping for miracles as rescuers continue the search. And of course this morning we will be reviewing the major stories making headlines across the papers this morning with Tunde Kolaouale. It's a beautiful Wednesday morning and we're glad to have you join us on the breakfast on Plasti via Africa. It feels really great to be back again. Yes, I did. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. It's Plasti via Africa here on the breakfast and we hope that you of course enjoy the next two hours with us of very interesting conversations. As always we're going to be going back to Annambar State this morning to of course have a quick review and discussion concerning the elections. Chukomar Soludo has officially been declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission. And of course from Annambar we're back here in Lagos where we will be looking at the certain rescue efforts at the Koi building collapsed. This is some of the conversations that we have this morning amongst other things. Good morning and welcome. As always we start with some of the top trending stories, the big stories that have made conversations across Nigeria in the last 24 hours. The first one of course is the International Assembly where the Senate has gone ahead to approve electronic transmission of results. In a declaration yesterday they said that they've given INEC, the electoral body, to go ahead to determine how election results will be transmitted either manually or electronically. If you remember this has created a lot of controversy and conversations in the last couple of months actually across the country. With the NCC initially being brought into the conversation where the National Assembly had said that the NCC should give approval somehow some way and clarify with regards network coverage on every area across the country where there should be elections Nigerians of course completely were against that and said that no, it has to be the Independent National Electoral Commission that is what the constitution says and that is what the electoral law says and that's it should be either determining how to transmit results electronically. And so yesterday they went ahead to give a go ahead with that. I think it's good news. I think it's something that the Nigerian electorate should be happy about with regards taking further steps and building our electoral process and ensuring that we have a seemingly smoother electoral process in 2023. That's for me what it seems like. And I think everyone should of course hear this story and say yes. The Nigerian people have won with regards to this conversation. So one of the things that I've been trying to understand with the electronic pronunciation of the result is it's not going to be an electronic voting? I think it's still a part of that conversation. They may not be able to achieve electronic voting yet but it's also left to INEC to determine if they can get that organized before 2023. I don't think they can because if you look at what happened in Anambra, Anambra basically is almost like a litmus test and they've continued to say differences at litmus tests, at those state was a litmus test or shoe state was a litmus test and now Anambra won one more state again at a litmus test with regards 2023. And seeing how BVAS which was just introduced had so many issues. Elections were meant to be held on Saturday. We eventually carried elections all through the weekend all till Tuesday and they still could not even call out the results or declare a winner early on Tuesday. They waited till late at night. I think it was maybe past midnight or around midnight before they finally declared Chukumasoludo winner of the elections. And so all those hitches and all those many, many speed bumps here and there, potholes if you will call them, show that they still have a lot of work that they need to do with regards to process and I don't think they will be able to achieve electronic voting. So for me I just think we're jumping the gun. That's my opinion because I have been thinking and that's why I needed to understand if we're going to have electronic voting because it would really make sense if there's electronic voting and electronic transmission of results. So how do we now explain? Now the argument and those who are proposing this as much as yes is really okay to introduce this. This is going to help deepen our democracy. It's going to help strengthen the electoral process. The point now here is we cannot, we cannot categorically say that fraud would actually be eliminated entirely. So having electronic results, I mean having results transmitted electronically is not a guarantee that fraud would be eliminated entirely from the system because you will still have to vote manually and then have to transmit the result electronically. So I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. I think what it helps with is we are coming from a place where there used to be incidents of ballot box smashing and some of all of that. And so it basically helps people to understand that once they vote, the votes from their polling units and all of that can be transmitted electronically. You don't need to wait for an electoral officer to take results written on a sheet of paper to INAG office. And so it makes the process easier. No, I totally understand the fact that it will make the process easier. My point is for those who are saying it would actually eliminate fraud, it would not entirely eliminate fraud. It does help. It may not entirely. It would just strengthen the entire process but it would not eliminate because like I mentioned earlier on, if we have to cast our votes manually and then transmit the result electronically within that particular process, a lot's going to happen. That's also not going to stop the issue of vote buying as well. I mean, all the issues also. So but we just know that hey, we're heading somewhere. It would hasten the process. For instance, you know, secolation of result. It would actually save time, save cost. I mean, because all of the spending of monies and all of the time, we will probably have to announce the result. But also there's several factors we also need to consider, which is a major issue. Service providers. The issue of network is also, you know, on top of the list. I also have a problem that since we introduced, you know, the smart card readers in 2015, we haven't really, you know, sit back to even ensure that we don't have the same mistakes, especially with the introduction of the beavers. Now we're hoping that maybe in 2023 we'll go to have the beavers introduced and what are we doing? Did we have a test run and all of that? Now in this election, one would have actually expected that which probably would have had, you know, the Anambra election, which is the closest election, probably have a test run of transmission, electronic transmission of results. But that didn't happen. So at what point are we definitely then going to test run that process and find out what's going to happen? They already did, you know, some of that in the Edo state elections.   You know, there weren't a lot of issues with the Edo and Oshun elections and I thought that Anambra would be, you know, even better than those two. But, you know, seeing the way that Anambra turned out is a little disappointing.  And there's still a work in progress, the electoral process, you know, and fine-tuning it here and there. It's still a work in progress. We are way behind, you know, compared to other countries in the world. But, you know, seeing the way that things move in Nigeria, it's still a work in progress. Eventually we will, you know, get to a place where we can now vote electronically, hopefully. But, you know, until we get there, you know, let's continue to tweak here and there and fine-tune here and there. It just shouldn't take this much time. I'm thinking that we shouldn't be jumping.  You can't just start having your tits or start talking. You have to start talking. There's a process. So I'm thinking that we're just jumping. We're just jumping from stage one to about stage three or stage four. Right. So I don't necessarily agree, because I get the point that you've made with regards it wouldn't stop vote-buying, you know. And all the practices. Yes, you know, I get that.  Sadly.  And I think it was in a report by one of the electoral bodies, a situation room, I believe, you know, that mentioned that the vote-buying, you know, that we see, we saw in Anambra elections was not in the presence of security agents. Policemen and the likes were there when people were buying and selling votes, which should be illegal. And so it's not just, I mean, there's so much, you know, that still needs to be, so, so, so much that still needs to be done with regards to process. We also mentioned, you know, in the course of our discussions that, you know, polling units were open on time. Electoral officers didn't get to the polling units on time. There are places where there were also issues with transporting, you know, election materials and all of that, which is embarrassing. And those are things that, you know, we should have dealt with as early as 1999 and then moved away from. But we're still dealing with them in 2021. So there's still a lot. And I agree with you that there's still so much that needs to be done and it feels like we're jumping the gun. But as we move forward, you know, as we get closer to 2023, I hope, you know, that the electoral body understands that these lapses cannot be permitted again. We cannot keep discussing these very, very flimsy things in 2023 and they do better.  My point here is if we want to, I don't remember which of the animals, but my point here is this. If we want to... I think it says if you want to... Exactly. So that's the point. And I'll say talking about eating a dog or a lion. Now, my point now is this. If we want to introduce technology, you know, in our elections to help strengthen the entire process of our elections, it's important that we do it from start to finish. I don't think we should just wake up and say, okay, at this point during the registration or accreditation, we introduce a component of it. There's online registration. I'm just saying there's a component. Let's just be ready and say we want to have the elections entirely, an electronic election. So from start to finish, from the registration process, to the voting, to accreditation, to the casting of vote and collision and everything, I'm thinking that we should... That's what I'm thinking. That's my thought. Of course, why are your nascent democracies still getting there? It's a work in progress. Of course. Even the online registration still has its challenges. Even the collection of PVC, there's still a lot of those challenges, even as much as they've tried to make online registration possible. So it's a work in progress. They will still continue to tweak here and there. I would say I wish that they would be faster with the tweaking process, instead of taking four years to make a new law. It shouldn't take that long. Every... We have four years before the next election. You should be able to do whatever checks and balances, dot whatever i's, cross whatever t's, in four years. It's enough time. Absolutely. And so it's a work in progress. Let's give them a little round of applause for this one. The National Assembly and INEC. Let's see what changes in 2023. Also from the National Assembly, there is a bill against unsolicited messages from loan sharks. This one's very interesting. I think it was sponsored by Akin Alabi in the House of Rebs. He basically took complaints of many Nigerians. I've received a couple of those phone calls. Your friend, Oye Tunde, some random name that I've never heard of in my life. They say your friend, Oye Tunde Baba Lola Lawal, is owing... Took a loan from some loan shark. And they want... The number policy on my phone, it's an 01 something something number.  And sometimes they look at his number, and they're like, I don't even have his number if I... Who is this person? Akin Alabi is saying that these are tactics... I don't have my hat for him. That loan sharks are using... They're using shaming tactics in order to get their monies back from Nigerians who have taken loans from them. Like I said, I've experienced it. And I understand. And he also mentioned that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial crisis that went across the world, and here in Nigeria, a lot of Nigerians had to seek loans here and there because they needed to survive. And so in order to get their monies back from these persons who took loans, the loan sharks have started using every tactic whatsoever, including naming and shaming some of these people who took loans. You know, just like you said, you've experienced it. I've also experienced it. And at first, I had this particular experience. I'm not going to mention the name.  Do you know the person personally? This particular person, I know. So because I had this... You know how you have these names? You could probably have a name like two names, maybe Kunli or Adi Kunli or all of that. So you could have like three Adi Kunli's on your phone. And especially if you have not, you know, put a particular different... You don't put any specific to differentiate. And so in a moment, I'm like, oh my God, she is fraudulent. You know, so I tried to reach out. It was later on, I understood what it was about. But I'm thinking that it's a good one because it's really disturbing. First of all, I wasn't contacted. When these persons go ahead to, you know, take this loan, no one told me.  So you don't do that without your consent. And a lot of these specimens, they probably could be your reference. In some cases, you know the specimen. In most cases, you don't know them. Now, without the fact that... I totally support it because when these people go ahead to take this loan, I am not in the know. No one seeks my consent. So how come I've been disturbed at the end of the day when they're not paying? And I think that if you take some money, you should pay them. They should devise a means rather than, you know, because I feel like this is actually disturbing. It is constituting a nuisance. So you turn off your phone and you see a lot of messages very annoying and scary.   It doesn't make her fraudulent person. No, I don't know because I saw the text. They're saying that you have to rip off the person because she's dubious, she's fraudulent. No, you know, so all of those descriptions. And then he said that making me very scared up until I started understanding what this is about. Really. So I think that is really, really wrong. Yes, it's okay to say if you put out monies, if you give somebody money as a loan, there should be a way to collect it. But that means of, you know, cohesing people and then putting out all of those messages without the consent of the people is really disturbing and stressful. We're going through a lot, you know, as a country.  Being in Nigeria is a lot of work. I mean, then you now live in Lagos, for instance. That's so much work already. I mean, we don't need all of that stress. So yes, I totally endorse this one. And I doff my hat for I came. Someone said, you know, every Nigerian, living in Nigeria, you know, you need to be prayerful. Everybody's prayerful. Even atheists every now and then will say, you know... I don't know about that one. You'll call on God, you know, and because of what we have to deal with.  There's, of course, also stories from Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who is saying that bandits, you know, would require land compensation in order to end killings. Of course, it's one of the things that made the news yesterday and, of course, created a lot of conversations yesterday. A lot of people mostly upset and angry, you know, that we're still hearing these type of statements about Sheikh Ahmad Gumi.  It cannot be treating bandits different from the way it's treating ESN or treating any other group across the country. You cannot, you know, continue to hear these things from Sheikh Ahmad Gumi. If he, you know, truly believes that he loves Nigeria then there should be a completely different narrative that comes from him as a religious scholar. You know, and it almost seems like he, you know, is speaking on behalf of the bandits or negotiating for bandits, you know, to the federal government. Oh, spokesperson of the bandits. And that's really what it seems like. I'm not sure what this type of requirements are, whereas you hear this type of requirements, except in Nigeria, it's the only country that you hear bandits, terrorists, actually, making this type of requirements from government, saying that they need land or they need money or some very, very ridiculous things. You know, at some point, this particular time, sometime this year, I read a particular report about, you know, the bandits saying they would like to have a negotiation with the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I mean, I have to emphasize that. The president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And then I started wondering, where is this gods coming from? I mean, who, how dare you dare the president to have a negotiation that we're not going to bulge until the president. They have a one-on-one and a face-to-face with the president. I mean, if you look at that in developed climes, how do you even explain it? I felt insulted, of course, on behalf of the president. But it goes to show that we constantly have laws. Let's talk about what mother is. The Constitution spells it out clearly. Killing is killing. Mother is mother. And so you have this group of persons who engage in this criminal act. And then at the end of the day, what is the law? What does the law say about this act and activities? How come we have not had these persons arrested? How come, you know, we seem to have a different body language when it has to do with this sector of persons? It costs a lot of consent. And it constantly encourages all of these conspiracy theories that you have.  Because that's what he looks like. So if you treat some people, I mean, let's look at iPop, for instance. iPop recently called of the Citadome Order. And that's a terrorist group. Terrorists do not even look at the... It's not a terrorist group. They have been proscribed as... Of course. So you see where I'm coming from.  That is not their mode of operation. So it costs for a lot of consent and worry. And it allows for all of the speculations and things, you know, thoughts that people would hold. Saying that, you know, the body language of Mr. President, the body language of those who should be responsible for ensuring that this is a crime. It should be treated as a crime that should face justice. It's different. This is the same bandit group that the National Assembly has been begging President Muhammadabad to declare terrorism. They're the ones that are seeking land. I don't know where they're going to get the land or what they're going to do. We need to go. We'll take a short break while we come back. We're moving into a newspaper review off the press where we get a quick review of the major stories making headlines across Nigeria this morning. We'll be back.


Hello and welcome to the session, I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question. The question says, Solve system of linear equations using matrix method. 2x plus y plus z is equal to 1. x minus 2y minus z is equal to 3 by 2. 3y minus 5z is equal to 9. Let's start the solution. The given system of equations can be written in the form ax is equal to b where a is equal to 2 1 1 1 minus 2 minus 1 0 3 minus 5 is equal to x y z and b is equal to 1 3 by 2 9. Now determinant a is equal to 2 into 10 plus 3 minus 1 into minus 5 minus 0 plus 1 into 3 minus 0 or 3 plus 0 1 and the same thing. This is equal to 2 into 13 plus 5 plus 3 this is equal to 34 which is not equal to 0. This implies a is non-singular and so its inverse exists. Now we will find out a inverse. For a inverse we will first find out adjoint a and for adjoint a we have to find out the co-factors of each and every element. Now co-factor of 2 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 1 into 10 plus 3 that is minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 1 into 10 plus 3 which is equal to 13. Again co-factor of 1 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 2 into 5 plus 0 that is co-factor of minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 2 into minus 5 plus 0 which is equal to 5. Again co-factor of 1 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 3 because it is the first row and the third column into 3 plus 0. Again co-factor of 1 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 3 into 3 plus 0 which is equal to 3. Similarly we can find out the co-factors of second row and third row. So hence we have the co-factors of the other elements of matrix. Now matrix formed by the co-factors is equal to 13 5 3 8 minus 10 minus 6 1 3 minus 5. Therefore now adjoint A is equal to transpose of this matrix which is equal to 13 5 3 8 minus 10 minus 6 1 3 minus 5. Now this is equal to 1 over determinant A into adjoint A. This implies A inverse is equal to adjoint A is our 13 5 3 8 minus 10 minus 6 1 3 minus 5 into 1 over determinant A which is equal to 1 over 34. Now A x is equal to B implies inverse A x is equal to A inverse B by pre multiplying both sides by. So we get A inverse into A x is equal to A inverse B that is I x is equal to A inverse B which implies this is equal to now A inverse is 1 over 34 into 8 minus 10 minus 6 1 3 minus 5 into B which is 1 3 by 2 and 9. Now we will solve this we get this is equal to 1 over 34 into 13 into 1 13 plus 8 into 3 by 2 plus 1 into 9. That is 9. Again 5 into 1 plus minus 10 into 3 by 2 plus 3 into 9 27. Again we have 3 into 1 plus minus 6 into 3 by 2 plus minus 45. So this is equal to we get this is equal to 1 over 34 into 13 plus 12 plus 9 which is equal to 34 and 5 minus 15 plus 27 this is equal to 17 and 3 minus 9 minus 45 this is equal to minus 51. This is again equal to 1 1 by 2 and minus 3 by 2 this implies our xyz is equal to 1 1 by 2 minus 3 by 2 on equating the corresponding elements we get x is equal to 1 y is equal to 1 by 2 and z is equal to minus 3 by 2 hence we have solved the above system of linear equations using matrix method and our answer is x is equal to 1 y is equal to 1 by 2 and z is equal to minus 3 by 2 I hope you have enjoyed this session bye and take care


All right guys welcome back to the 21 convention we have our our next speaker is the only Speaker that will be speaking twice at this event this year Even though he believes that computers are going out of style He will be teaching you online game and how to use your computer to pick up women. Here's the man himself. Bravo. Welcome, man Thank you. Thank you All right, so yesterday When I spoke last time It was about self-defense and tactical training and I mentioned that I was in a firearms training tactical training all that Stuff before I got in to pick up what a lot of people don't know is I was actually married when I was 23 years old we had a house two cars all that stuff and actually after a Miss carriage things started going downhill. I really wanted things to work out She didn't she wanted to call it quits. So after less than a year we had to get divorced and I One of the worst parts of getting married and like less than a year later getting divorced Did you have all these gifts and all this family that came out and saw you and you feel so horrible? Because they spent all this money like I was like do I give gifts back?  Luckily though the housing bubble was at the perfect time So we sold our house. We made like a hundred grand Split it worked out well for us. She didn't buy another house afterwards got hosed. I read it. I knew anyways, um, I Don't get joy out of that though so anyways, I Don't that'd be petty so I really don't I don't I wish you as well. But anyways So I started out on this and a lot of guys it really bugs me when guys say oh I'm a natural and I got into this stuff and I knew what to do because I didn't especially when I was divorced I was crushed my spinal cord had been like compressed down. I felt like Not like a man anymore I'd let myself go to I erased all those files from my brain of how to talk to girls because I didn't want to deal with that anymore and One of the things to I wanted to also improve my life was I didn't want to be to the point where I had to settle For a girl like I remember when I got divorced one of the very first things I thought was man I'm damaged goods now. What girls are gonna want to date a guy like me I'm gonna have to lower my standards like before I didn't want to date chicks that had kids Now I should probably do that because what chicks gonna want to date a divorced guy Maybe I wouldn't date chicks that weren't that cute before now I might have to because I'm tainted that really sucked to think like that and when I started I started realized I needed a change in my life. I wasn't happy with where I was going. I wasn't positive I was reliving the past over and over again in all my past failures. So I started this self-help self-improvement journey on my own Quit doing the tactical training started co-running a yoga studio health and wellness studio with a friend Start working on self-improvement and it wasn't wasn't for about six seven months later. I read about this book the game Reddit read it in three days went out started using this stuff and Couple months later Neil style was doing a seminar. I ended up going to it with my wingman. We met him He offered me I ended up staying for free for that and on the end of the second day He actually asked me to help teach a little bit later. I went to New York with them for a seminar boot camp I helped teach there and I went from junior coach to senior coach to eventually executive coach where I moved out to LA And I lived there for like the last five years running the company the coaching staff Full-time 40 plus hours a week in field training phone coaching boot camp seminars all that stuff So I'm pretty good at this pickup stuff About a year ago. I started my own company. I have my own website Bravo pu a calm and Part of it is I have a free forum a blog All this stuff's free one thing that always pissed me off was guys who aren't on their own forum posting I'm the number one poster on my site. I think my form is pretty solid Lots of free content lots of free information. I'm on it all the time I try to answer as many posts as I can too, but if not there's other guys on my site I use a belt system like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu so you can see there's purple It's brown belts that are on it posting, you know, these guys are legit. I give every single one of those out So anyone that has one is solid My online game 2.0 program The only difference with that is the video that we're about to see now is on my forum and all the new stuff that I come Up with that. I'm always testing and tweaking also gets put in this section of the forum So it's my 2.0 program because it's always getting updated and all my members are always posting new stuff there Also, so it's user driven content. We all help each other out Also critique people's pages you can go there you read all the critiques I've done of other people's pages and you can learn a lot from that if you just take notes from here You're gonna learn a lot, but that's just a program offer and it's a hundred and sixty nine dollars So one of the biggest problems guys use is online game.  You're online You use it a little bit.  That's it It was also useful if You want to practice your dates?  Why you're still working on your cold approach skills because you can be getting dates using this but like I say This is just something that's just part-time not your focus too many guys get into this They quit cold approaching and they just use this I didn't even get into online game for a couple years after I moved out to LA because I just didn't want to focus on it I wanted to work on my my real game The other thing you can do too and I'll explain this a little bit more later is when you travel somewhere And I did this with the London when I went there a little bit ago for a seminar I set my profile up saying I lived in London beforehand I was going there for a work event and I was gonna scout it out because I might be thinking about moving there That's not necessarily dishonest because I might move to London So I needed like a tour guide or someone to help me out So I had girls lined up before I even went there and one of them traveled over four hours to come see me So different sites People use Facebook and they think Facebook is good for gaming. I use it a different way I want my Facebook page to be awesome, and I want people who then look me up online girls Think they're being sneaky and they search me up or Someone that maybe I Facebook close when they go to my page I want my page to be money to where they look at it and that Does the work for me? So you want to have cool pictures up? Cool funny status updates up I put lots of that stuff up and I give everyone here permission just to copy and paste the shit I use and just what instead of sharing it from my page though go to the source and then do it that way So it looks like you found it and one of the funny things I see is online I'll post something and 30 minutes later someone else will post it and there's all these comments from his friends Where do you find this stuff? This is so funny and I obviously it's for me I give you guys permission to do that I don't use Facebook to game girls because to me it's just there's so many other so much other competition The girls aren't in the right headspace in my opinion to get hit on in Facebook guys teach it to me I just think my time can be used more effectively and more efficiently this comes from my martial arts and tactical training background So I don't want to have to spend a lot more time on something if I can spend five minutes on a dating site Or five hours on Facebook to get the same results My space it's dead some people still use it look at the camera to don't use my space Even though Justin Timberlake or something bought it. They're trying to bring it back instead match.com e-harmony those cost money I'm cheap.  It's um Any girl that would go on craigslist and put up an ad my classy. I don't want to I don't want to go out That type of girl Okay, Cupid.  I'm the guy that would live everyone else would die But anyways with okay Cupid stuff It seems like most girls get into that and they like investing all that time and it's not as like rapid fire and fast Like the other dating site I use so it works But really what I recommend is finding a site on the next one I'm going to show you creating a profile that works and then I just copy and paste it on other ones So you can use it that way so which site do I recommend? Plenty of fish now


Hey what's going on guys, Patriot Prime here once again and we are still in line, but as you can see behind me, the line has greatly improved, it's two hours later, caffeine has kicked in, we're all feeling pretty good, so it's gonna happen, we will schedule a nap time at some point today, we got people wheeling in goodies, registrations over there on the other side, making friends, making connections, there's the premium people, so it looks a good time, I've met quite a few of the people that I I've done sit-rep interviews with, that's been really cool, hey White, hey Roland, you're still here, hey Kato, wish you were here brother, we've seen a lot of cosplayers already and some of them I think are from Transformer series I've never seen before, seen some weird stuff, yeah lines getting long, I saw David Soblov earlier, he walked in, that was the voice of Blitzwing in the Bumblebee movie, really good crowd, not sure what the numbers are, we I'm actually third in line so I'm hoping to get some goodies, they tease us that let us look into the other room, but we can't go anywhere yet, yeah looks like to be a lot of fun just want to give you guys a quick update on where are you coming from Hydra, pocket six wrap-up, they actually had, I think I said earlier last night people were able to go in and get the early stuff, so if any of the big exclusives are gonna be there, look forward to see I look forward to seeing you guys too, I'm easy to see, I'm the six foot four guy in the Patriot Prime shirt, but just another quick update for you guys, we'll see you all real soon


This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The Australian High Court ruled in August to support a law barring tobacco companies from putting their advertising logos on cigarette packages. The European Union is considering a similar ban, but a recent international study showed that some countries do little to control tobacco use. It found that the tobacco industry still has strong influence around the world. Researchers examined information about 3 billion tobacco users worldwide. They looked closely at tobacco use in 14 low and middle income countries. They compared this information with tobacco use in two developed countries, the United States and Britain. Gary Jovino is with the University of Buffalo School of Public Health and Professions in New York State. He was the lead researcher in the study. He says, Tobacco contributes an enormous burden to the health care system in developed countries. He says that will become the case in low and middle income countries in the near future. In India, he said it already has. The study found China has 300 million tobacco users. That is more than any other country. India was second with almost 275 million tobacco users. Dr. Jovino says the researchers found powerful pro-tobacco forces were active even in elementary schools. The China National Tobacco Company, he says, has supported elementary schools in China, dozens and dozens of them. And they use their support to promote propaganda about tobacco use. Dr. Jovino says this is the same as the government telling children to use tobacco to be successful. But he notes tobacco is in fact addictive and shortens lives. The study showed that governments and social traditions in many countries are open to influence from pro-tobacco forces. So the Australian court decision is considered important to those fighting to control tobacco use. Jonathan Lieberman directs the McCabe Center for Law and Cancer in Australia. He says the study shows everybody that the only way to deal with tobacco industry claims or legal threats is in court. Jonathan Lieberman said the decision was fantastic for public health in Australia and around the world. The study also found that unless urgent action is taken about a billion people will die early in this century as a result of tobacco use. On average, each of them will lose 15 years of life. For VOA Special English, I'm Laurel Bowman.


Hello, welcome everyone to IIT, I am going to talk about IIT Bombay which is one of the learning platforms that we use within IIT, of course it is accessible outside to all students who are interested in attending courses provided from IIT Bombay. I belong to the application development group within IIT, so computer science department is executing this project called IIT Bombay which is a website which is accessible to all. How many of you have access to Udacity or Quaterra? How many have got Facebook accounts? How many have got Git accounts? Fewer than Facebook accounts definitely. So yeah, why I ask this question is because IIT Bombay is based totally on an open source stack. And you will see how open source has made a difference to how we were able to or how fast we were able to deploy this platform. It is in keeping with the open source principle that you know do a lot of good to the entire society with the help of a lot of people contributing in a small way. So big difference made by small contributions just as Professor Fattak was saying. So my name is Aparna, I have been here for two years also all of it on the IIT Bombay platform. Before this I have always been in software development about 15 years of experience in IT industry. Then I decided that my calling was to do something related to giving back to society and I decided that I wanted to spend few years in IIT Bombay and that's how I came here. I will tell you a little bit about IIT Bombay. I will give you an overview of the entire platform and then we will see what customizations we have done on IIT Bombay on top of the open source stack that we had used. So this is what the website looks like, the homepage of it. Anybody accessed IIT Bombay starting? You were aware? Two people I would like more people to enroll, see what the experience is like. What is IIT Bombay? It is a customization of open edX, a platform which is similar to say Udacity or Corsair or if you have attended edX courses. It's a customization of the open edX platform. So edX they made their entire software open source in the year 2013 and after that we took it over, we took the source code and we have customized it. Why the customization was required is because requirements of India may be different, the Indian learning system works differently. So probably what works best for say American universities may not work really well in India. So that customization was our small start in trying to understand, trying to build something which will be specific to local requirements. So what customization we have done? I will talk about little later. As of now the platform is focused on higher education. So the courses that are there on the platform are relating to engineering mostly. There are one or two courses relating to some horticulture and all that, but it's mostly focused on higher technical education. IIT Bombay is a MOOC platform. You've heard the word MOOC? So it's massive open online courses. So Coursera offers MOOCs. So that's become like a buzzword. Advantage of MOOC is that it provides unlimited participation. Just host the platform, make the courses available there and anybody and everybody in an open way can register and attend the courses. So courses from MIT, Stanford, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, wherever your preferred professor you would have heard about from your friend, you can attend his courses without actually being a student of that university. So you get the similar course content, the similar kind of assessments, everything as if you are attending the course in that university just that you are not a student. Just because probably you didn't study hard enough at the time of taking admissions or whatever. So yeah, so unlimited participation, you make it once, it can run for a lifetime. Open access, anybody can access it, it's online via web. You can understand MOOC is important in India, for India, because the level of education, the quality of education, the quality of assessments, professors, infrastructure, everything varies all over India. All of you are fortunate to belong to the best universities in India. Not every engineering college can meet that level of sophistication in terms of the facilities and course content, faculty. So yeah, it's important for India. Somebody may be doing computer science. He thinks he is doing computer science in some village, but his computer science knowledge will probably be very different from what your computer science knowledge is. So why not give him a platform where he can learn what you guys are also learning, how much he learns out of it, what use he makes out of it, that's his thing. But the access to the information has to be available. So that's the concept of a MOOC platform for India. But of course, MOOC is difficult to implement in India because infrastructure is not uniform. Again, just as colleges, the quality labs, all of that is different. Similarly, 3G access is not available to everybody. Since this is web, of course you need to have some kind of internet, but things are getting better. I mean, we are hearing of free Wi-Fi at railway stations here and there, in Cafe Coffee Day has Wi-Fi. So hopefully we'll have a lot more internet all over India in the next few years. So yeah, so that was the concept behind the MOOC platform, making the content available and then leaving it up to the students how best they want to make use of it. These are some of the features. Just a slide where I wanted to put some images and show you what it looks like. I'll talk a little bit more on the features in the next slide. So what the platform has, it's a complete learning experience.  That is important. Of course, that is like a classroom lecture. So it's an important part of the learning. But besides that, there's a whole lot of other facilities available. There are a lot of assignments, different types, right from essay type questions to your multiple choice and the whole lot of assignments. There is a discussion forum which is inbuilt into the platform. So it's a very context specific. Whatever subject you are studying, the discussion forum belonging to that. There can be discussion forum, fora, associated to a particular topic if you are interested in only that particular topic. There is a wiki within the platform. So like Futter server is saying that you can write a small article or write up and if somebody is interested, you can read up about it. So there's a wiki within the platform. So yeah, it's a complete learning experience as if you are having a classroom session. These are the bunch of features, a whole lot of them. So it's not, as I said, it's not just a simple video delivery or video streaming system. It has all of these features, right from different types of roles. You can have teaching assistants. You can have beta testers for courses. You can have staff, faculty, discussion forum administrators, moderators and all kinds of access control is there in the platform. There is, of course, the content management, the content authoring part where the faculty creates the courses. There is a lot of analytics reporting so that faculty can get feedback about how well his course is being received. In the course where you can have multiple types of components, you could have HTML, you could have animation, you could have videos, variety of different types of content. Then there are different types of problems as I said. You can customize the type of problems. You can create your own assignments like for a computer graphics course. Somebody wanted that he should be able to ask students to upload image files, compare image files and then based on the difference of comparison between files, you should be able to grade the students. So that kind of a thing. You can build something of your own. So very, very specific kind of assessments can be developed depending on the type of subject. You could have something specific to chemistry. You could have an electronic circuit builder, a mathematical expression evaluator, all kinds of things are possible. The platform allows for a lot of customization so you could integrate with different other learning management systems. You could integrate with other software systems like we have a workshop management system. So you could integrate with the workshop management system through APIs which are provided in the platform. The application, not the IIT Bombay application, but the Open edX platform is also available as a mobile app. And then there is the social part of it. So there is a linkage with Facebook, Twitter and what have you. As I mentioned, Open edX is the open source software which was taken and it was customized. It's available for anybody to download. I would encourage. I mean those of you who are really interested in open source just go ahead and download that software. You'll find out how complex and how powerful Open edX or open source can be when you do that. Because typically even when I joined here, I used to think that open source is just some, you know, small little things which somebody writes, you know, in his spare time and it doesn't serve any great big purpose. But when you look at this software, that's when you realize that open source can really be powerful. It can be really complex and you can get to learn a lot of things. Besides the job market for open source is also hotting up. So that's another motivation for all of you. Those who haven't opened a gate account should just get started and try to make a, if not a contribution, at least learn from the work that other people have done. This is just a very small list of the technologies that are used in the platform. I mean I could write a whole page full of technologies and it still would not be complete. It is based on Django Python. Databases mainly there are two. So SQL Database and no SQL Database which is Mongo Database. Then there is the queuing system. There is file-based integration, database-based integration. All kinds of technologies that you can learn about when you use the platform. So this is what the architecture looks like. I'm not going to bore you with all the details of all of it. But the picture just shows how big and how complex the open source code can be. And it works. We find very few breakages in it. I mean the defects are really not substantial compared to the size of the whole thing. And all of this, if we had to develop it, it would have taken ages to develop. So it's all available for free and we just have to customize it for our requirement. So this is the power of open source. The system is supposed to be, it is architected to handle. In Indian context, LAX is nothing. It has to work for crores. Every system which is massive, it has to reach people, has to work in crores. Even the Americans are just flabbergasted when they look at the number of students, the number of users that we keep projecting that will be required on the system. So it's a really scalable system. And so far, we have found that it works. Yeah. So this is the user interface of it. It just depicts how the student is shown the orientation where he is at any point of time, how you can navigate, easy to navigate. These are the various things that you can do with it. Videos with transcripts, transcripts where you can click as per your speed of reading or your speed of how fast you want to go with a topic or how slow you want to go with it. You can just skip a couple of topics if you are comfortable with them. You can have essay type questions, not just multiple choice, not just fill in the blanks. Even essay type questions which are automatically graded by the system. So obviously a single faculty cannot grade lakhs of students. So then there are various mechanisms built into it. For example, there is peer reading.  Obviously the system has to generate that group automatically. Otherwise you will just choose your friends and form a group and assess each other, which will totally be the purpose. So yeah. So I mean it supports basically everything that is required for a good course. Assessments, as I said, multiple choice for all various types of assessments. This is an interesting thing that you can do. You can build embedded graphics into your course. So the entire power of HTML5 and all the facilities you can build into your course. Discussions I talked about and Vicky, which I mentioned. This is the studio where the faculty can create the courses. The various types of problems that a faculty can add into the course. This is the grading policy. The faculty can decide that I want to have grades like ABCD or just ABC or just A and B, whatever. So depending on what percentage he wants to decide as the cutoff for a particular grade. So the faculty can decide that. There is the certification. So at the end of a course, you get a certificate. In earlier days, it used to be linked with the LinkedIn account. So you could display your edX certificate on the LinkedIn account. For some reason, they have done away with that. But that certificate is still there. On the site, you can always boast of, you know, I have five open edX certificates on whatever. Data analytics, for example. So yeah, so that's a big thing you can boast about. There's analytics for the faculty to measure the effectiveness of their course. So discussion for is a great feedback to the faculty also on how they can improve their courses. So all the time, the TAs are monitoring the discussion forum trying to understand which are the difficult topics, which topics require more attention to be paid by the student as well as the faculty has to dwell on that topic more. This is the progress of the student, which the faculty can monitor. Again, grades are not the best indicator of how much a student has understood, but definitely a measurable way by which the faculty gets a feedback about how well the student has understood. The customizations that we have done, the bare bones at open edX when you install it, it looks something like this here. On the left side, the gray, dull, boring looking site.  We have tried to provide multilingual support. We started with providing Hindi, obviously, as the first language. There are plans depending on variety of parameters to add more languages. But yeah, the idea is to reach as many students in the language in which they are most comfortable. So definitely very important for us. Different types of assessments, as I said. So that computer graphics assignment, which one computer graphics faculty wanted to add, where he should be able to assess students depending on the image file that the student has submitted. Compare the difference now. In my case, both the images are looking very similar. Obviously, so he has got a full grade on that. But yeah, in an automated way, the faculty could have assessed potentially lacks of files without doing a whole lot of manual work. And there are integrations, as I said. You could integrate with a system like Moodle, for example. So a faculty has created some courses in Moodle. Now he has to all over create the courses in the IIT Bombay platform. Very painful. So he will just continue to have his course presiding in Moodle but have an integration with IIT Bombay where IIT Bombay will be able to pull out the course contents and display it onto the platform. So this is, I think, one of the projects that some of you may be doing. Then the user interface customization, the multi-language support, those are few of the things that we have done in Indianization of the platform. This is another thing which we did. We didn't modify the platform for this but an innovative way of reaching out to students. So there is a software called as A-View which has been developed by Amrita University that is used by IIT Bombay for reaching out to faculty. So generally, there are sessions with faculty members. If you have heard, teach 10,000 teachers. So IIT faculty trains faculties in other colleges. So typically used by faculty members but here in a remote center we got a bunch of students into the center and they were interacting with Professor Fatah as part of one of the courses. Actually interactive one-to-one kind of question-answer kind of a thing happening. So I mean these are a lot of things that we can do to make learning more effective and getting the students more involved in the learning process rather than it being just like how I am presenting, I am talking and you guys are just listening instead or that making it more interactive. So the other platform allows for that. So these are the things I wanted to talk about. I want to put more of an emphasis that open source is important. Open source is useful. So I think India doesn't have enough open source solutions which should have actually come out by now looking at how many people we have in the IT industry. Somehow that somebody outside had to take the effort and build it and we are just using it. So maybe in the years to come we should also be making things which the rest of the world should be able to use to make a difference. So on that note I will just end it.


Motivation is fleeting. It's like any other emotion. There's some times where I feel highly motivated and there's other times where I don't. And I wanna make sure that I'm showing up as my best self as consistently as possible. And a lot of times you have to learn to perform without motivation. You have to learn to perform without purpose. You have to learn to perform a lot of different things. And that's what people think. They think I need to have this motivation to work out, to study, to be better. So if they don't have it, they just don't do it. So if I'm only showing up as my best self or I'm only doing what I need to do when I feel like it or when it's convenient or when I'm feeling motivated, then my performance is going to be like a roller coaster. And I don't want that. I want to be a consistent performer. Don't count on motivation. You count on discipline.