Converting units of height (feet/inches/cm)

Error

There was an error loading the page.

Contributors

Chris Graham

Feedback

From users who are members of Transition to university :

Chris Graham

said

Ready to use

7 years, 8 months ago

History

○

Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Gave some feedback: Ready to use

○

Chris Graham commented 7 years, 8 months ago

Part of a larger question. I've reorganised, given the unit conversion table to the student, and added steps.

○

Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Created this.

Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Converting units of height (feet/inches/cm)	Ready to use	Chris Graham	20/11/2019 14:36
David's copy of Converting units of height (feet/inches/cm)	draft	David Rickard	07/11/2018 21:05

There are 5 other versions that do you not have access to.

Question statement

{person['name']} is $5$ ft $\var{inches}$ inches tall and would like to find {person['pronouns']['their']} height in cm.

{capitalise(person['pronouns']['they'])} find{s} the following unit conversion table:

$1$ foot	$12$ inches
$1$ inch	$2.54$ cm
$1$ metre	$100$ cm

Give any introductory information the student needs.

			Name	Type	Generated Value

person	dict	Dictionary with 3 entries
inches	integer	6
inchfeet	integer	66
cm	number	168
s	string	s

Automatically regenerate variables?

Name

Data type

Value

xxxxxxxxxx
 
random_person()

JME function reference

Description

Describe what this variable represents, and list any assumptions made about its value.

Can an exam override the value of this variable?

Generated value: `dict`

[ "gender": safe("male"), "name": safe("Jack"), "pronouns": [ "they": safe("he"), "their": safe("his"), "theirs": safe("his"), "them": safe("him"), "themself": safe("himself") ] ]

→ Used by:

Statement
Advice
"Part a)" - prompt
"Part a)" → "Step 1." - prompt
"Part a)" → "Unnamed step" - prompt
"Part b)" - prompt

Parts

Part a) Gap-fill
1. Gap Number entry
  Add
Part b) Gap-fill
1. Gap Number entry
  Add

Gap-fill

Ask the student a question, and give any hints about how they should answer this part.

What is {person['name']}'s height in centimetres?

Unnamed gapcm round your answer to the nearest cm

Advice

{person['name']} is $5$ft $\var{inches}$ inches tall.

a)

To find {person['name']}'s height into cm, we first convert it into inches.

We can convert feet into inches by multiplying by $12$. So $5$ feet is

\[ 5\times12=60 \text{ inches.}\]

Therefore $5$ft $\var{inches}$ inches is

\[
60+\var{inches} = \var{60+inches}\text{ inches.}
\]

We can now convert this to cm by multiplying by $2.54$.

\[\var{60+inches}\times2.54=\var{cm}\text{ cm, rounded to the nearest integer.}\]

b)

To convert centimetres into metres, we divide by $100$:

\[\var{cm}\div100=\var{dpformat(cm/100,2)} \text{ metres.}\]

Therefore, {person['name']} is $\var{dpformat(cm/100,2)}$ metres tall.

Give a worked solution to the whole question.

Use this tab to check that this question works as expected.

There was an error which means the tests can't run:

Part	Test	Passed?
Gap-fill
Gap-fill		Hasn't run yet
Number entry
Number entry		Hasn't run yet
Number entry
Number entry		Hasn't run yet
Number entry
Number entry		Hasn't run yet
Information only
Gap-fill
Gap-fill		Hasn't run yet
Number entry
Number entry		Hasn't run yet

This question is used in the following exams:

Loading...

Error

Metadata

Taxonomy: mathcentre

Taxonomy: Kind of activity

Taxonomy: Context

Contributors

Feedback

History

Comment

Checkpoint description

Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Chris Graham commented 7 years, 8 months ago

Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Error in variable testing condition

Error

Warning

Generated value: `dict`

Parts

Gap-fill

a)

b)

Loading...

Error

Converting units of height (feet/inches/cm)

Metadata

Taxonomy: mathcentre

Taxonomy: Kind of activity

Taxonomy: Context

Contributors

Feedback

History

Comment

Checkpoint description

Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Chris Graham commented 7 years, 8 months ago

Chris Graham 7 years, 8 months ago

Error in variable testing condition

Error

Warning

Generated value: dict

Parts

Gap-fill

a)

b)

Generated value: `dict`