Dorian's reply history at Help.com

I’d be behind you Max, no worries :)

That could be a problem with Facebook rather than anything you’re doing wrong - they’re notoriously temperamental when it comes to photos.

I’m broke :P but I’m still at uni which is good. How’s the wonderful world of Oz?

I’ve hallucinated after not sleeping for a couple of days. EAT then SLEEP.

If you’re still stiff the next day, it’s a workout.

Proof:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule

Yeah, you’ll always be HARVARDgirl!!:) to me!

[quote somewhat happy lady]Mr. Tinkles
lol
i read somewhere that a cat got it’s GED, nice[/quote]

Or Mr Bigglesworth :P Nah, you can only call it Mr-something if it’s one of those ridiculously furry ones…

Well, it’s not very original but you could just, you know, ask him? Sometimes the original ways are the best, and with guys it’s generally a good idea to be direct as possible, otherwise we just think we’re reading too much into things.

Oh, and I just noticed Sadie is an anagram of ideas. Well done there!

Fred if it’s a boy, Velma if it’s a girl. You could get a puppy to keep them company and call it Scooby :P

Get away from him. You’re underage and he has a girlfriend - even if you did manage to break the two of them up (and you’d be intruding on a relationship thats lasted three years, and through all the stuff people go through in that space of time), if he actually did anything with you he’d officially be a peadophile. In a few years’ time it won’t be such a big deal, but this is the way things are now. You could spend the next few years pining after him, but I really wouldn’t recommend it, especially as you could be setting yourself up for a massive disappointment further on down the line. If he’s in a relationship then it’s because on some level he’s happy there, so leave the two of them be and get over him, for both your sakes.

Well, that’s a pretty daft way to tell a girl but I guess I’ve been guilty of worse :P I reckon you should just come out and tell her - either she didn’t get the hint (in which case she thinks you’re interested in someone else and you should set things straight if you want to be with her), or she got the hint (which is more likely) and she’s ignoring the situation because she’s not interested but doesn’t want to hurt your feelings. Either way it’s going to be bugging the hell out of you until you find out for certain, so you really should just tell her and see what she says. If she turns you down you’ll be no worse off, and faint heart never won fair lady.

Well, there you go. It’s worth remembering the pattern - it makes factorising quadratics a lot easier, which in turn will help you out with a lot of maths and physics in general.

When you say you’ve told her, what exactly did you say to her?

Well, the first step in solving this is to recognise that this is a quadratic equation. As you should already know, when you have an equation of the format:

x^2 + ax + b = 0

you can factorise it, so it should look like

(x + m)(x + n)= 0.

Doing this a few times with different numbers shows you that;

m * n = b

and

m + n = a,

so what this question is asking you to do is to find all the pairs of numbers that multiply together to make 10. Taking the sum of each pair will give you a value for k.