In article , Brian-Gaff
scribeth thus
But hang on, what might happen is the first time yes she gets two oraange
ones if she cannot see the colour, howeve she might get 1 of each, so the
next bit is then changed. its not a real world problem, this is what always
made me annoyed.
Brian



If it were my younger daughter she'd have simply scoffed the lot and
that would have been that..


Then there would have been a cat fight when the older found out she'd
nicked them and she'd have her fingers down younger's throat getting her
to regurgitate them;!..

Girlies, sooo very sweet;!...
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Tony Sayer

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
...
GCSE's getting harder causes Paul Dacre's head to explode.

or

"Slightly hard" GCSE Maths Question causes outrage...

I wonder if there is a GCSE Religious Education question that asks you to
name the 4 boney dudes on horseback (ISTR that only two of them are boney).



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Adam

On 05/06/2015 23:30, John Rumm wrote:
A coarse mix of concrete is made by using 2 parts of water with 3 parts
of sand, 4 parts of drippings and 2 parts of cement by volume. Assuming
that there is no loss in volume on mixing, calculate

Drippings? WTF??

(a) the number of spadefulls of chippings needed to make 22 spadefulls
of concrete.

Oh, chippings. You mean gravel?

{b) the amount of concrete, in cm^3 to 2 significant figures, which
would be obtained by using 2850 cm^3 of clippings.

.... or do you?

I worked out n=10 on the way down to the shower. And I'm not very awake
at that time of day...

Andy

On 09/06/2015 21:04, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 05/06/2015 23:30, John Rumm wrote:

No, I did not write - I scanned and OCRed the graphic copy of the paper
for those who wanted a text version...

A coarse mix of concrete is made by using 2 parts of water with 3 parts
of sand, 4 parts of drippings and 2 parts of cement by volume. Assuming
that there is no loss in volume on mixing, calculate

Drippings? WTF??

OCR remember?

(a) the number of spadefulls of chippings needed to make 22 spadefulls
of concrete.

Oh, chippings. You mean gravel?

Its the way I would read it. However it does not matter since the
questioner is defining the parameters. They could say that that the
ingredients for concrete are milk, flour, chocolate chips, and evo stick
- it would not change the fundamentals of the aptitudes they are testing.

{b) the amount of concrete, in cm^3 to 2 significant figures, which
would be obtained by using 2850 cm^3 of clippings.

... or do you?

I worked out n=10 on the way down to the shower. And I'm not very awake
at that time of day...

Which, as several have pointed out, was not an answer to the question
posed (nor required for its complete answer)

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Cheers,

John.

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