There has been a lot of chirping from the peanut gallery recently about Algebra being of no use in everyday life. I'm here to show you otherwise. Take today's power outage for example. To calculate the length of the power outage, we write a simple equation in x: x = current_time - time_on_oven_clock x = 2.44 - 11.55 x = -9.11 hours. I hope you can all see how applicable this ancient and venerable science is, even today!