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10-Marble
Sep 17, 2025 3:18 PM UTC
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Wrong Answer

I attached my MathCAD 9.0.0.0 file.

The correct answer for the 1st part is...

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If BB_14100646_1-1758121381432.png, I get the wrong answer...

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If I remove the "min" units BB_14100646_3-1758121550032.png, I get the right answer...

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...I don't know why it's doing that, but worst case, I can live with that. The 2nd part answer should be...

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However, it won't calculate the answer...

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There might be a problem with the variable Ct because before there was a box around just that variable in the equation. Now the box is around the entire equation.

 

 

 

 

23-Emerald V
Sep 17, 2025 3:53 PM UTC

Unfortunately, you've hit the perennial problem of trying to use units in an equation that has already had the units precalculated to get the desired units (eg, hour to min) and/or removed from the equations.

 

The power of 0.125 is a strong indicator that the terms inside the parentheses are unitless numbers. Indeed, the symbolic failure flags up a unit incompatibility error (note that rhs divisor adds 1/min to a number).

 

Removing units gives the following:

 

2025 09 17 B.png

 

Stuart

 

(I haven't got MP9, so didn't post the amended worksheet)

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23-Emerald V
Sep 17, 2025 3:53 PM UTC

Unfortunately, you've hit the perennial problem of trying to use units in an equation that has already had the units precalculated to get the desired units (eg, hour to min) and/or removed from the equations.

 

The power of 0.125 is a strong indicator that the terms inside the parentheses are unitless numbers. Indeed, the symbolic failure flags up a unit incompatibility error (note that rhs divisor adds 1/min to a number).

 

Removing units gives the following:

 

2025 09 17 B.png

 

Stuart

 

(I haven't got MP9, so didn't post the amended worksheet)

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10-Marble
Sep 17, 2025 5:10 PM UTC

That works! Thanks!

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23-Emerald V
Sep 17, 2025 6:45 PM UTC

No worries,

 

Stuart

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