When is good order important

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When is good order important?
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• How does doing things step-by-step relate to good
  order?
• How does taking things day-by-day relate to good
  order?

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Baby Gibsons Aunt

• By
• Richard Holden

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Overview

• The characters
• Bad news/good news
• Calculating the good
• More bad news
• Calculating the bad
• Conclusion and final thoughts

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Rufus Henry

• On parole from Pine Valley Honor Camp
• Lives in the Flats
• Durango housing project
• Lives with mother, sister and brother
• Hero is Ernie Brown, halfback for Cleveland
  Corsairs

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Walter Baby Gibson

• Rufus best friend
• Huge and powerful for his age
• Belongs to the Moors, a street gang
• Impulsive
• Comes to Rufus with good news/bad news

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Baby Gibsons Aunt Sally

• Bad news
• Terminally ill
• Good news
• Leaving all to Baby
• House
• Belongings
• Savings
• Classic car
• Splitting all with Rufus
• Each will get half

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How Much?

• So how much are we talking about, Baby?

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Aunt Sallys House

• Assessed at 25,000
• Needs repairs of 5000
• Set aside costs
• Insurance 500
• Taxes 2 of assessed value

25,000 5000 500 .02(25,000) Money from
House
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Belongings

• Cost of most furniture
• New 9,000
• Currently 1/3 new price
• Cost of antique rocker
• New 500
• Currently 5 times the cost new

(9,000 3 5500) Money from Belongings
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Savings

• 500 cash
• 1,500 checking
• 3,000 bonds
• 5,000 CDs
• Debt
• Credit card debt is 2,500

(500 1,500 3,000 5,000 2,500) Money
from Savings
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Classic Car

• Original cost 2,000
• Value in 1980 500
• Value Dec 99 1,000
• Since December 2000, it has doubled in value each
  of the past 5 years!

1,000 2 2 2 2 2 (1,000 25 ) Money
from Car
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Rufus Computes His Share

• House 25,000 5000 500 .02(25,000)
• Belongings (9,000 3 5500)
• Savings (500 1,500 3,000 5,000 2,500)
• Car (1,000 25)
• Rufus will get one-half of all this money, so
• Rufus Share ½25,000 5000 500
  .02(25,000) (9,000 3 5500) (500 1,500
  3,000 5,000 2,500) (1,000 25)

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Bad News from Aunt Sally!
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Bad News Passed to Rufus

• Please excuse my dear aunt Sally
• She had an accident
• Destroyed her car
• Had no insurance
• Had to pay for other car she hit

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Rufus Remembers the Order of Operations

• Parenthesis ( ), , ,
• Exponents
• Multiplication or Division (in order left to
  right)
• Addition or Subtraction (in order left to right)

• Please
• Excuse
• My Dear
• Aunt Sally

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Rufus Calculates His Would Be Gain

• ½25,000 5000 500 .02(25,000)
• (9,000 3 5500)
• (500 1,500 3,000 5,000 2,500)
• (1,000 25)
• First, work within each inner parentheses
• ½25,000 5000 500 500 (3000 2500)
  (7,500) (1,000 32)
• ½19,000 (5,500) (7,500) (32,000)
• ½ 64,000
• 32,000

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Rufus Asks About Damages
Aunt Sally loses her car and has to pay 32,000
in damages to the other driver
So how much does the accident set us back, Baby??
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Rufus Computes His Share of Loss

• ½ Car value before accident 32,000
• ½ (1,000 25) 32,000
• ½ (1,000 32) 32,000
• ½ (32,000) 32,000
• ½ 64,000
• 32,000

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Rufus Passes on His Calculations
Guess were no worse of than when we started Ruf.
That leaves us exactly zero!
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Rufus Summarizes the Day
I guess the moral of this is that we need to
depend more on ourselves
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Rufus Summarizes the Day
But, more importantly, right now we need to quit
thinking about us and help your poor Aunt Sally!!
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Credits

• Character names taken from book, Durango Street,
  by Frank Bonham
• Rufus Henry
• Walter Baby Gibson
• Pictures and graphics from MicroSofts Clips
  Online

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