December the 19th - trains from bristol and the west...?????

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[Mookiemoo]

You are correct - however I am not getting what your original point was!

Unless it is something to do with the zero discussion in which case to get seat 1 a necessary condition is that n=0

 

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[inspector_blakey]

Kids today.

3(n + 1) = 3n + 3 when you expand the bracket, since the bracket just indicates that you multiply everything in it by three.

 

What zero discussion anyway...? 0 is certainly a number, and qualifies as an integer. In this case, since the seat numbers only go up to 24, the permissible values are that 0 is less than or equal to n, which in turn is less than or equal to seven.

[Brucey]

Kids today.

Last year, I took a maths unit as part of my degree.  This was aimed at students with A-Level maths.  I was shocked to turn up to the first lecture to be told "The Positive Integers are the numbers 1,2,3,...".  

[inspector_blakey]

Could be worse, I pitched up at the first maths lecture of my chemistry degree, again, supposedly accessible for those with A levels maths. The lecturer immediately launched into complicated discussions which, if my memory serves, involved algebraic limits and partial differential equations, netiehr of which I'd ever encountered before and both of which left me utterly baffled. It only got worse from there on in. Didn't halp that the lecturer was an angry little man with an almost comical resemblence to a garden gnome.

And in light of the fact that this thread has not descended into a discussion of algebra rather than having anything to do with train services on 19 Dec, I've shifter it to the lighter side!