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4. How is Solvency measured?
- Solvency can measured via the Acid Test
(Current Assets - Closing Stock):Current Liabilities

No, that's liquidity (almost sure)

Crania

Time for a new question

Name six functional zones within a city

Victor

Central Business District
Retail (Regional / District / Neighbourhood)
Industrial (Heavy / Medium / Light)
Residential (Urban)
Residential (Suburban)
Recreational
Green Belt
Transport Reservation

Crania

Correct

Explain the difference between a push factor and a pull factor in terms of migration

JBoyle4eva

Push factor: No jobs, famine, war etc.
Pull Fators: Jobs, goood economic history etc.

Name the head of An Gárda Shíocána?(This came up in the CSPE mock)

The Fitz

Noel Conroy,
What do plants need to carry out photosynthesis?

PurpleFistMixer

Lessee... sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water?

Question: Where was Michael Collins shot?

JBoyle4eva

The Fitz wrote:

Noel Conroy,
What do plants need to carry out photosynthesis?

Oh, sorry,

Correct phrase on question: The title for the Head of an Gárda Shíocána is......?

Victor

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Correct phrase on question: The title for the Head of an Gárda Shíocána is......?

Commisioner, assisted by deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners. http://www.garda.ie/angarda/overview.html

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Question: Where was Michael Collins shot?

Beal na Blath. http://homepage.tinet.ie/~kilmurryonline/history/beal_na_blath/beal_na_blath_&_ml_collins.htm

Victor

Name the main ports in Ireland (list at least 10 of various functions).

Crania

That question is too hard and I dont think it is even on the JC course

Victor

OK name 5 then.

Crania

New Ross, Dublin, Waterford, Foynes, Dun Laoighaire.

They're probably wrong because I guessed most of them

declan_lgs

Science: What does AC and DC stand for, and whats the difference between the two (apart from the first letter/word, of course) ?

Alternating Current and Direct Current. Alternating current changes direction 200 times a second (I think).

Explain what a Vernier scale is and how to use it.

johnnyq

It is an auxiliary scale, either straight or an arc of a circle, designed to slide along a fixed scale. Its unit divisions, usually smaller than those on the fixed scale, permit a far more precise reading. The vernier is attached to the scales of instruments employed for very accurate linear or angular measurements.

In history, what is a cottier, conacre, lazybeds and nepotism.

Victor

Kenny007 wrote:

Alternating Current and Direct Current. Alternating current changes direction 200 times a second (I think).

The most common is 50 Hertz, but 60 Hz and 16.7 Hz are also used.

johnnyq

johnnyq wrote:

In history, what is a cottier, conacre, lazybeds and nepotism.

I really caught ye with that one :cool: :cool: :cool:

PurpleFistMixer

Oops, totally forgot about this thread.

Only know two but what they hey,
Cottier = Irish person during the time of the famine who didn't own any land but worked for a landlord and lived on a tiny plot of land they were given, possibly?
Nepotism = time of the reformation, when a church position is given to a relative.

Question:
Geography: In what country does the river Rhine rise?
And for bonus points, English: What writing device was used in the latter part of that sentence?

Victor

Geography: In what country does the river Rhine rise? Switzerland

And for bonus points, English: What writing device was used in the latter part of that sentence? A spoon.

The conacre was the private plot a tenant received for growing his own food (mostly potatoes) in exchange for working the landlords land.

Lazybeds are raised mounds of soil in which crops, typcially potatoes, were grown. This was especially common in thin soils.

declan_lgs

question?

Victor

8x²+12x=2. Solve.

PurpleFistMixer

The answer was alliteration, not spoon, Victor.

And.. for the maths, I've got a feeling this may be wrong because I did the calculations with a permanent marker and the crazy computer calculator, but what they hey.
Rounded to no particular amount...
x = 1.5138
x = -2.4221

Question...
Science: What two chemicals are used in the preparation of carbon dioxide? Or, if you prefer, oxygen?

declan_lgs

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Science: What two chemicals are used in the preparation of carbon dioxide? Or, if you prefer, oxygen?

For oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, so hydrogen and oxygen (I think).

umm.. History: where was the caraval designed and by who?

Victor

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

And.. for the maths, I've got a feeling this may be wrong because I did the calculations with a permanent marker and the crazy computer calculator, but what they hey.
Rounded to no particular amount...
x = 1.5138
x = -2.4221

Can you check that? I don't know the answer myself ... loosing brain cells ....

shelsfan

I got:
x= -0.1909830056250525
x= -20.94427190999916

Lantis

The maths one gave me x = 0.151, -1.651.

Everyone getting different ones then?

Victor

Lantis wrote:

The maths one gave me x = 0.151, -1.651.

I'd like people to give their calculations, however, Lantis would appear to be correct, based on this plot.

shelsfan

Yeah, checked mine and they're definitely wrong...
If it was -8x2 +12x = 2 the first one would have worked...

PurpleFistMixer

Okay, did it out again, got .151388 and -1.651388 which is the same as Lantis so there's probably no need to put up the workings, unless someone WANTS to try and understand my handwriting.

And um... the caravel was designed in Portugal by the Portuguese?