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I have been stuck with a problem.

I been presented a range from 10k to 3000k.

I need to split this into ten sections. I go to do the math and things are not working out, can someone show me what i need to do an offer guidance because, i need to do this for a much more diffrent set of information.

Ben Madison
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    Just divide the difference by $10$ and construct the intervals according to this new difference. – Peter Dec 10 '19 at 17:56
  • It'd be useful if you showed us the math you did and we could tell you where the error is. I strongly suspect you are doing an indexing "off by one error"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error of some sort but I don't know which one. – fleablood Dec 10 '19 at 18:07
  • Off by one errors often occur when one confuses counting the bodies of the sections [which you can't one-by-one one after another] with counting and placing the endpoints of a section which is that an endpoint starting a section must be exactly the same as the endpoint ending the previous section (so the don't go up one by one). And because you have endpoints at both ends (but all but the first and last are shared) you will have one more end point than you have sections.. And the end points start at "0" and not at "1". This can be confusing sometimes. – fleablood Dec 10 '19 at 18:15
  • @fleablood i cant the work is done on a graphing calc. – Ben Madison Dec 10 '19 at 18:16
  • Graphing calculator? What parameters would you put in and what output would you want. A graphic (or any other) calculator can only answer a question if you know how to ask it. This is so far as I can tell a very difficult question to ask in terms of commands for a graphing calculator. The problem of encoding what to ask would encapsulate thie entire issue of solving to begin with – fleablood Dec 10 '19 at 18:31
  • @fleablood i apologize to be more clear i was dealing with kHz. i was in engineering mode floating point. Should i just omit the khz and just use the number. – Ben Madison Dec 10 '19 at 19:29

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So you have a length that is $300 - 10=290$ km long. If you split this into $10$ sections each section will be $290 \div 10 = 29$km long.

So the first one starts and $10$ and ends at $10+29=39$. ANd the second one starts and $39$ and ends at $39 + 29 = 68$. And so on...

Google Off by One error or Fencepost problem to be aware of intuitive but incorrect traps that people commonly fall for with they try to do these types problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

fleablood
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