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A calculator can help you turn a complex math equation into a simple solution, but it can also help you solve your costume woes; use calculators as inspiration for an original and easy-to-construct costume.

Many children decorate their bedroom ceilings with glow-in-the-dark star stickers. When a child outgrows the stickers, or when it's time to repaint or move, the task of removing them may seem overwhelming.

Fruit flies can be detrimental when they infest citrus trees, as they are not readily noticeable and can reduce fruit to mush. Mediterranean fruit flies tend to attack lemons, mandarins, peaches and pears.

Spray out a lump of expandable foam to create the basic shape for a solid rock, or apply the foam over a bucket to use less foam.

Usually covered by fabric or leather, ottomans are used as a design element in a home, to provide a place for homeowners to put up their feet or used as extra seating. Ottomans are sometimes tufted with buttons and stitching. This tufting introduces folds in the fabric that can collect and hold dust and dirt.

The proper name for a three-sided pyramid is a tetrahedron. Tetrahedrons have three showing sides formed by three triangles of equal dimensions. The base or bottom of a tetrahedron is also a triangle, whereas a real pyramid built by ancient Egyptians has a square base.

There are two ways to define a sloped roof area: the surface area of the roof itself and the area protected by the roof. These have different areas because the roof lies on the hypotenuse of a triangle, whereas the area protected by it is horizontal.

Rayon clothing is synthetic, or man-made. Though man-made fabrics are not necessarily a modern phenomenon, people tend to know less about caring for these fabrics than they do about caring for traditional wool or cotton.

Framing a favorite quilt or blanket is a way to preserve a piece of fabric for years to come while still being able to look at and enjoy it. If left unframed, your blanket could be subjected to use, moth damage and spills that could make it less valuable over time.

Often there is more than one variant of a gene in a given population; these variants are called alleles. Punnett squares are a simple visual aid to help you calculate the proportion of offspring from a cross with a specific combination of alleles.