Numbas demo: random person extension

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Renamed the variable 'name' to 'pname' so it doesn't clash with the marking parameter.

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Created this as a copy of Calculating a simple rate of pay.

Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Calculating a simple rate of pay	Ready to use	Elliott Fletcher	19/12/2022 12:30
Consumer Arithmetic - Calculating a simple rate of pay	draft	Paul Hancock	24/07/2018 02:50
Numbas demo: random person extension	Ready to use	Christian Lawson-Perfect	14/12/2022 08:10

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Question statement

When writing word problems, it's good to ensure a fair balance of gender and other characteristics in named characters. The 'random person' extension makes this easy.

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			Name	Type	Generated Value

person	dict	Dictionary with 3 entries
pname	string	Dylan
they	string	he
their	string	his
theirs	string	his
s	string	s

			Name	Type	Generated Value

			payment	integer	1600
			weeks	integer	8

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Name

Data type

Value

xxxxxxxxxx
 
random_person()

JME function reference

Description

A random person

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

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Generated value: `dict`

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

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pname
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their
theirs
they

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{pname} gets paid a total of $£\var{payment}$ at the end of {their} summer job; {they} work{s} for $\var{weeks}$ weeks.

How much does {pname} get paid per week?

£Unnamed gap/week

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We are told that {pname} gets paid a total of $£\var{payment}$ at the end of {their} summer job and that {they} work{s} at {their} job for $\var{weeks}$ weeks.

To calculate the amount of money {pname} gets paid per week, we divide the total amount of money that {they} earn{s} at the end of {their} job by how many weeks that {they} work{s} for.

\[£\displaystyle\frac{\var{payment}}{\var{weeks}} = £\var{{payment/weeks}}.\]

Therefore {pname} gets paid $£\var{{payment/weeks}}$/week.

Note that in compound measures, a forward slash symbol / is often used instead of the word 'per'. So $£\var{{payment/weeks}}$/week means the same as $£\var{{payment/weeks}}$ per week.

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Generated value: `dict`