Maldonado 1

Michelle Maldonado

Lyudmila Shloydo

Math 1010

November 19, 2019

Project 2: Optimization

Real world problems, I cannot express how difficult the first project was. The first project

addressed Marketing which I work in Marketing more specifically programmatic marketing and

have never used those types of calculations or equations. I can imagine this is more for

algorithms for the back end and stocks etc. I have tried numerous times to work through story

problems and always seem to get stuck or get even more confused than when I started. I have

done everything you can think of numerous videos seeing other people’s examples and

reviewing all of my notes, just when I think I understand it I miss something.

I am focusing on the second project which I feel I had a much better understanding. We

focused primarily on using elimination and parabolas. As I mentioned earlier this could be used

in the real world, I know my professor mentioned using it for and enterprise or a larger

corporation which makes sense. Currently at my position and work level I do use quite a bit of

math, but not to this extent mainly basic math. Aside from large corporations’ people who work

with budgets or just like to play out big purchases or financial changes (job loss, promotion etc.)

It may not be this complex. They actually might benefit using the linear graph instead of

parabolas to see how their finances are performing or if they are budgeting correctly or going to

target too much!

 Maldonado 2

Working in the business world sticking to budget is always important, you want to make

sure you are getting your money’s worth and also not overspending. In order to keep a business

thriving we have to make sure we are spending in the right places and if we do over spend how

can we compensate. Yes, there are times that we need to overspend, but how can we make any

money if we do it all the time? We need to be grossing more than we are spending.

The Assignment did change my views, I mean I do work in the marketing work and I

can’t recall using this in specific, but I also know that there are other fields out there that require

much more extensive formulas. I would assume that just about everyone that is an enterprise has

a computer that makes the calculations. We need to avoid human error somehow. I would guess

that there would be someone there to cross check the information, such as doctors and nurses for

instance. Doctors are not always with the patient they are bound to make an error we are human

this happens. I have heard numerous stories with nurses saving the day and coming through and

fixing measurements or dosages of medication either because the doctors handwriting was

illegible or simply because they made a mistake. This is life changing stuff!