Original Writing - Prose: Alma's Diary.
Alma's Diary Hello, it's me again (well, who else d'you think it would be?) Sorry I haven't kept up to date but our Joan's been pestering me, putting her nose in all me stuff. She's out with me mam at the moment, so I've got some time alone, thank god! It's horrid sharing a room with Joan, she's so daft all the time, always complaining. I don't think me tabs can take owt more! Sometimes I wake up in the morning an their ringing from the night before! I could throttle her at times, always moaning that the rooms too cold or she's hungry, it's not me mams fault we ain't got enough money for heating. She's lost her job you see, me mam that is. Anyway, she had one of them nervous break downs or something because it was the same day that me dad went away 2 years ago to go to the war. He hasn't come back yet. I wish he didn't go away from us, me mam says he's gone some place nice that I will go to one day and when I get there I get to stay there forever, she says that I will never be in pain or hungry there. (Can't wait to find out where it is.) I miss him all the time, I hope I get to see him again one day...It'd be nice that. Well, enough about that, a few weeks back me an our Joan met this really nice man called Ernest, he were old but he was ever so nice to us, he bought us cakes an coffee at the café, filled up our Joan, stopped her complaining about being hungry all the
PAYPHONE. The woman is going to make a phone call costing any multiple of 10p. Investigate the number of different ways she could put 10p and 20p coins into the payphone.
The Payphone Problem Maths Coursework "I will be investigating a pay phone problem in which I will be using some information and my knowledge to guide me. I will have to make predictions and conclusion's and use tables to show my work." A pay phone will take only 10p, 20p, 50p and £1 coins. A woman has plenty of 10p and 20p coins. She has no other coins. She can put the coins into the pay phone in any other. Question? . The woman is going to make a phone call costing any multiple of 10p. Investigate the number of different ways she could put 10p and 20p coins into the payphone. Prediction I predict that my table will have a relationship and show me how to find a sequence or the nth term. Table. Amount of money Ways of putting it in (in order)/ No of ways to put it in (in order) 0p 0p 20p 0p + 10p 20p 2 1+1 30p 0p + 10p + 10p 20p + 10p 0p + 20p; 3 1+2 40p 0p + 10p + 10p + 10p 20p + 20p 20p + 10p + 10p 0p + 20p + 10p 0p + 10p + 20p 5 1+1+3 50p 0p + 10p + 10p + 10p + 10p 20p + 20p + 10p 0p + 20p + 20p 20p + 10p + 20p 20p + 10p + 10p + 10p 0p + 20p + 10p + 10p 0p + 10p + 20p + 10p 0p + 10p + 10p + 20p 8 1+3+4 60p 0p + 10p + 10p + 10p + 10p + 10p 20p + 20p + 20p 20p + 20p + 10p + 10p 0p + 20p + 20p + 10p 0p + 10p + 20p + 20p 20p + 10p + 10p + 20p 0p + 20p + 10p + 20p 20p + 10p + 20p +10p 20p + 10p + 10p +
Diary of William Marshall: July-August 1916
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My Travelouge - Killarney.
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Diary of a White Teenager attending Little Rock High School in 1957.
Diary of a White Teenager attending Little Rock High School in 1957 02.09.1957 (Sunday) Dear Diary I can't believe it they're actually going to attempt coming to my school tomorrow. I'm amazed they got this far but rest assured they wont get much further, my father will see to that. It's an outrage to the whole white community. Just the thought of all of these dirty niggers roaming the school corridors is enough to make me wonder what this world is coming to and that our president is stooping to an all-time low. Father said that he will never vote for him again and that he has only brought shame to our race. How dare he make us pretend that these black animals are in the least bit equal to us. They don't even deserve to live let alone deserve the right to an education such as my own. Unpaid work on farms is far more generous than they deserve! Father is livid and mother is simply distraught. Just the idea of niggers rebelling and thinking that they are higher than the dirt that they actually are is keeping not only her but also me awake at night. Father believes that hanging people should be brought back into practise and I have to agree with him. Father bought me a new dress this morning, I'm going to wear it to school tomorrow. I'm just hoping that a nigger doesn't come so close to me that that their colour rubs off on it. It is only pale pink after all and I'd hate
The course work is about finding all the possible combinations for putting in to pay phones.
Pg1 The course work is about finding all the possible combinations for putting in to pay phones. Using different coins and using those results to try and find a formula that works so you would successfully be able to predict how many coins you would have into the pay phone to find out the next total without going through all the different listings. There are three parts to this coursework, the first two parts are an investigation into specific coins used and after the first two investigations there is a formula that works for whose coins. The third investigation is a more general case. The first two investigations help you with the third. 0p |There is only 1combination of putting a 10p piece into a pay phone. 10p 20p For the 20p piece there is 2 combinations of putting a 20p piece into a pay phone. 20p 10p, 10p pg2 30p there is 3 different combinations For 30p to go into a pay phone. 10p10p10p 20p10p 10p20p Pg2 40p There are 5 different combinations of putting 40p into a pay phone. 10p10p10p10p 20p20p 10p10p10p 20p10p10p 10p20p10p 50p There are 8 combinations for 50p and they are 10p10p10p10p10p 20p20p10p 20p10p10p10p 20p10p20p 10p20p10p10p 10p20p20p 10p10p20p10p an easy way to do it is to 10p10p10p20p it is to put 20p up every go. The sequence goes up in a regular pattern this
One-hour observation at Hovedbanegård.
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The Runaway
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Knotting Special!
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