Betty Hits 80 Years of Age (ditto for Bob Newhart)

MathBabbler's mom, Betty, turned 80 years of age on 5 September 2009.

5 September 2009 written in MM/DD/YY format is a BAD (Basic Arithmetic Date)...

   09/05/09:  5! % 9 = sqrt(9)

   observe... 
      5! = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120  (5! is 5 factorial)
      120 % 9 = 3 because 120 divided-by 9 is 13 remainder 3
      sqrt(9) = 3 because 3 * 3 = 9 (note: -3 * -3 = 9)

The following information was obtained from TimeAndDate.com.

      From and including: Thursday, September 5, 1929
   To, but not including: Saturday, September 5, 2009

   It is 29,220 days from the start date to the end date, but not 
   including the end date Or 80 years excluding the end date.
   
   29,220 days can be converted to one of these units:
   * 2,524,608,000 seconds
   * 42,076,800 minutes
   * 701,280 hours
   * 4174 weeks (rounded down)

Betty will hit the century mark in the year 2029.

54 days after Betty was born Wall Street crashed (29 October 1929) and the Great Depression began.

According the CPI Inflation Calculator at BLS.gov, $1.00 in 1929 as the same buying power as $12.59 in 2009.

MathBabbler has always liked Bob Newhart and he created two BABs during October and November of 2006 that mentioned Bob Newhart. While working on this BAB for his mom's birthday, MathBabbler learned that Bob Newhart and his mother where born on the same day of the say year (i.e. they share a brithday).

On 30 October 2006, the Arizona Republic printed the following quote by Bob Newhart.

   "If someone says in 14 days they covered 5,200 miles,
    I have to get a piece of paper and figure how many
    miles per day that is.  I get mad at myself 'cause
    I think, 'What difference does it make?' But I have
    to know." -- Bob Newhart on "his fascination with 
                 numbers," via the Associated Press 

Exercises

1. The prime factorization for 80 is _______________________.

2. 80 years is ________ decades. [1 decade = 10 years]

3. 80 years is ________ score years. [1 score = 20]

4. MathBabbler was 52 years young when Betty turned 80 years old; therefore, Betty was __________ years of age when she gave birth to Gerald (a.k.a. MathBabbler).

5. According to TimeAndDate.com, 80 years is 701,280 hours. The prime factorization for 701,280 is 2^5 * 3^2 * ____ * ____ .

6. 5,200 miles in 14 days is approximately ________ miles per day. [round to nearest thousandth]

Updated::2010.09.06

Betty (MathBabbler's mom) and Bob Newhart turned 9-squared or 3-squared-squared on 5 September 2010.

Creator: Gerald Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 05 September 2009