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Anyone good at mathematics? If P is inversely proportion to R, P = 5 and R = 12. What would P be if R = 4? I'm not asking for an answer, just at least get me started and tell me what to write please.
 
Maybe your key is too beat up. The same thing happened to the key to my front door. I could put it in the lock just fine, but it wouldn't turn.
 
Coming from a person who doesn't know anything about the mechanics of a car, it seems to be blocked, or maybe you have an electrical fault? (I.E, the car thinking it has been locked but it hasn't?) Does it work sometimes, or not at all?
 
Anyone good at mathematics? If P is inversely proportion to R, P = 5 and R = 12. What would P be if R = 4? I'm not asking for an answer, just at least get me started and tell me what to write please.

if x and y are proportional, then y = k*x, where k is a constant.
if x and y are inversely proportional, then y = k/x, where k is a constant.

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so you do P = k/R, and plug in P = 5 and R = 12 to find what k is.
then you use the answer for k and R = 4 to find what P is when R=4.
 
Maybe your key is too beat up. The same thing happened to the key to my front door. I could put it in the lock just fine, but it wouldn't turn.

I just got the key recently, and didn't do anything to it between the last time I successfully drove the car, and it not working. I have bent it a bit, but not at the part where it goes into the ignition.

Coming from a person who doesn't know anything about the mechanics of a car, it seems to be blocked, or maybe you have an electrical fault? (I.E, the car thinking it has been locked but it hasn't?) Does it work sometimes, or not at all?

It started not working last night. The electricity seems to be otherwise fine (the lights turn on, and the radio used to until I couldn't even turn my key that far.)
 
P > 5

That's it.

I got that answer, but didn't do anything what Mise below said... The working doesn't work anyway so it'll just be wrong.

if x and y are proportional, then y = k*x, where k is a constant.
if x and y are inversely proportional, then y = k/x, where k is a constant.

so you do P = k/R, and plug in P = 5 and R = 12 to find what k is.
then you use the answer for k and R = 4 to find what P is when R=4.

Thanks. That's... understandable... :p
 
I have this person who I said bad things about behind his back and I said I was sorry but he just got really angry. What do I do???
 
He was probably thinking something like why bothre apologizing when the damage is already done. Some people are weird like that. :p (But I understand where he was coming from. I'd certainly get pissed if say, the 'Foot was sending PM's about me to Huayna... :mischief:)
 
Is it possible to change the amount of water in the reservoir of a toilet?

I don't think I'm asking this correctly...
Maybe someone understands what I mean?

Put a housebrick in the cistern.

Old school cisterns overkill with the amount of water they use. The amount of water saved with fractionally smaller flushes is greater than the increased instance of "double flushers".
 
Is it possible to change the amount of water in the reservoir of a toilet?

I don't think I'm asking this correctly...
Maybe someone understands what I mean?

Yes. The fill valve, the part that has the water pipe attached to it, has a float of one form or another that shuts off the water when the tank is full. Change the height of that float and you change how much water comes into the tank before it shuts off.
 
Does anyone know what may cause a car ignition to not function? As in, you put the key in, but it doesn't turn, and it isn't because the wheel is locked (because it isn't locked)?

As in when you put the key in, you are unable to turn it? Because that is fairly common in that what happens is that the steering wheel lock can bind up the ignition lock. The way to deal with that is to try pulling the steering wheel in each direction and see if the ignition unbinds.
 
Yes. The fill valve, the part that has the water pipe attached to it, has a float of one form or another that shuts off the water when the tank is full. Change the height of that float and you change how much water comes into the tank before it shuts off.

Generally the shut off is at about the horizontal so it is impossible to tinker. I guess a bigger float would be possible, but a brick is an awful lot easier.
 
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