Who Needs Maths?


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Who needs maths? We all need maths!

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Maths is your friend, madam! Who needs maths?

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Who does need maths? Well, you need maths.

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No, no - don't turn around. It's you I'm talking to. You need maths. Why?

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Because maths is in everything that you do, OK?

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It's in your look, in your clothes and your hair.

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It's in the food that you eat. It's in your house where you live.

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It's in your health and your fitness.

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Trust me, I'll prove this to you.

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Maths is all around you - you just weren't looking hard enough. I mean, there's even maths in comedy.

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In a recent poll, right, they discovered that, erm,

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50% of people understand percentages.

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And er, the remaining 83% don't.

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Who needs percentages? You need percentages.

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Percentages are everywhere.

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50% off in the sale.

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50% polyester. 26% fat content.

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13% of the public vote.

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63% of my time watching television and consuming pasties.

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I think I'm 80% sure that I'm a 100% out of shape.

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I'm applying for Celebrity Space Hopper Mathletes,

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which of course, as you know, features 12 celebrities

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pitching their maths skills against each other on a space hopper.

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Could be my chance to meet a regional news presenter.

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The winner gets a 12-month teaching contract and a massive golden space hopper.

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And I want a piece of that.

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Now, it says here on the application form that all competitors will be

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expected to give one 110% effort at all times.

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Is that even possible? Can you give a 110% effort?

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Think I'd better ask someone who knows.

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This is Riccardo, personal trainer to the stars and now me.

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Right, now, erm, maths...

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-Yeah.

-In personal fitness, does it feature, is it a thing?

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It's a massive thing in my industry.

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It's one of the things that's most important cos we have to find out lots of different types of

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percentages, for example, the workout intensity a client can go to.

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We work out percentages when it comes to nutrition.

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And also, there's body statistics as well.

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Pick it up! Pick it up!

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So even in the world of health and fitness, maths is key.

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Keep it going, keep it going!

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Riccardo uses it to work out how hard to push his clients.

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This is hardcore maths.

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Because winners train, losers complain.

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Keep it strong! Up!

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-Are you a winner?

-Yes!

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Right, let's get some claps. Yes!

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Push it! Lovely!

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That's what I'm looking for.

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OK, Sanjeev, our goal is to try and find out what you can lift,

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once and once only, ie your 100% maximum effort. OK?

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-OK.

-And we're going to focus on doing a bench press.

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Riccardo's started me off with just a bar and he reckons lifting this

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is taking about 30% of my effort.

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And as the weights get added on I can feel it getting harder.

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I'm not sure how much more I'm going to be able to lift!

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Three, two, one...and lift.

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HE GROANS

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-There we go.

-OK.

-I got you.

-OK.

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-Whenever you're ready. One time is what we're going for.

-Yeah.

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Ready and....drop.

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Good, now push.

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HE GROANS

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Keep going, keep going, keep going, Do you think you could do one more?

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Shall I try?

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-You can try.

-OK.

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OK. Push, push.

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Mummy! Daddy! Argh!

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-I've got it.

-No, no.

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Well, I did manage to speak some words of Serbo-Croat there

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but I certainly didn't manage to lift that.

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So the point is that that was your 100% maximum effort.

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So showing obviously that 100% maximum effort is all you can do.

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So there you go, point proved.

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You cannot give more than a 100%.

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Yes, despite what the celebrity mathletes folk

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and football managers say, 100% is the maximum.

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Clear? Good. Right, that's plenty of Riccardo.

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Time to make that golden space hopper mine.

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OK, so we're going to have to get you ready for the Celebrity Space Hopper Mathletes.

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-OK. Ready when you are.

-Ready? OK.

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Do you think I'll be able to do this?

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-I think so.

-I'm not so sure.

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-So your maximum heart rate is 178 beats per minute.

-Right.

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What I want to do is, I want you to find out for me

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what 60% of that is?

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106.8, sir!

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Good! OK, round it up to the nearest whole number.

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107.

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Perfect! What's 70% of 130?

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Bring up the tempo. Work it out!

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-91.

-91. Perfect, yes.

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Give me more, give me more!

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You need 80% of the public vote to get into the final of Celebrity Space Hopper Mathletes, OK.

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-We expect 5,600 calls to come in.

-Really?

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Sanjeev, tell me what 80% of 5,600 is.

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4,480 votes.

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That's correct! And...

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and stop!

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Well, I gave 100%, which is all I could give.

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And Riccardo is very impressed.

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In fact he was so impressed he's offered me 33.3% reduction

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in his personal training rate, which is a third.

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It's very reasonable.

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Here's the answer I gave him.

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I once had a 2-week argument with a 90-degree angle.

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Turned out he was right.

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AUDIENCE GROANS

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Angles, angles, who needs angles? Well, you need angles.

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To stand up. To sit down.

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To stand up again.

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To walk.

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To moonwalk.

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Look here, I can't moonwalk. The point is, every time you move, you're using angles.

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You don't even know it. Check this out.

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Right angle!

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And er...

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Acute angle!

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Do you know what else is cute? This haircut.

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It's a new style that I'm thinking of showcasing.

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But I don't know, I don't think I can get away with that any more.

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Besides, the whole palm tree thing is very last year.

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No, no, I think I need to rethink my look and who better to

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help me out than top hair professor, Mr Sharz Din.

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-Sharz, how are you?

-Very good, thank you very much. How are you?

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I'm not too bad. So, maths and hair.

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Surely two completely mutually exclusive separate worlds?

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Not at all. Erm, what's very interesting

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about that is that we actually use maths all the time, particularly geometry.

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And the most important part of it, of course,

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is the understanding of angles.

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OK, so could you maybe talk me through specifically how you

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use angles in hair and at the same time sort out my barnet?

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Why don't we have a little look at a couple of models

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-and see how angles work on the head shape?

-OK, sounds good.

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This is the lovely Helen.

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-Hello. And who's this chatterbox here?

-Er, this is er, Sally.

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To be honest I've been giving Sally a really good scalp ritual

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for two minutes and I'm getting nothing back off her. Are you all right, love?

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Anyway, what are we going to do today, then?

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Well, first of all, what we're going to do is an iconic haircut

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called the graduated bob.

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And it starts off at the back, shorter at the nape,

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rounder at occipital bone travelling into a horizontal line

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-to complement the jaw.

-OK, so it's a genuine combination of different angles.

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It certainly is. Are you ready to get started?

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Are you ready to go? I'll take that as a yes.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop right there!

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-What?

-It's not looking quite how it should, is it?

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I'm not hearing HER complain.

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Why don't you put your scissors down, and I'll show you how we work with angles?

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Bit harsh.

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We've sectioned Helen's hair off.

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-Into two right angles, I notice.

-Very good.

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And two right angles coming together make that section perpendicular.

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OK.

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Now, how we start is,

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if we imagine the jaw is horizontal or at zero degrees...

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Yeah.

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And that would make that angle 90 degrees,

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I'm going to cut Helen's hair at 45 degrees, right in between.

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Now after that, the angle then becomes less and less

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or more ACUTE as I work around the head.

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You're stepping down, down, down, down, more and more acute

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as you work around the head and then you finally hit zero.

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-Very good. Excellent.

-Wow, who knew there was so much maths in hair?

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Check the skills. The man is simply a wizard with the scissors

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but he couldn't do this without the maths to back it up.

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Maestro, it's beautiful! Look at all the angles!

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-It's nice how it all combines.

-So can you repeat that trick with your angle skills

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and do something with this?

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We can try.

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Right, Sanj, this is your new look.

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Vertical, 45 degrees, horizontal.

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What do you think?

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I think it's the future of hair.

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You've actually created a new hairstyle.

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-I've even got a name for it.

-What's that?

-The protractor!

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I don't understand, right, I keep putting up

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the volume on my television and it's still the same size.

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# Pump up the volume, pump up the volume, pump up the volume, check it out... #

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WHO NEEDS VOLUME? Sorry, you need volume.

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Volume is the measure of the space taken up by three-dimensional objects.

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And pretty much all of your possessions are three-dimensional objects.

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Your hat, your cat, your bat. It doesn't even have to rhyme with hat.

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Everything you own takes up space. How much space? VOLUME?

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I mean, look, I've got no space left in this room.

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It's just full of junk I don't even use any more. Look. Legs!

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I've got a perfectly good pair in my trousers.

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What have I got? Yes!

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This, 100 copies of this.

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The Sanjeev workout plan. Why didn't that sell?

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Space hopper. I take the bus now.

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What else? Ukulele...

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Why didn't that career take off? The old ball pit.

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I mean, phff, the number of nights I've spent in that.

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But I need to get rid of it all. I need to free up some space. I need to put all this stuff up in storage

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and frankly it's too big a job for one man.

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I think I'm going to need some help.

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And this is why I keep this man, Gavin, in my cupboard.

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Gavin, you are, are you not, an expert in volume?

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-I am.

-How so?

-I run a removals and storage company

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and for every job we do, we need to have an accurate volume of the job

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so we know what's going to fit in boxes, or what's going to fit in our vans and containers.

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So, can I ask you, using that volume brain, to hazard a guess as to the

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total volume of the stuff I need to take out of here and put in storage?

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Total volume...including the furniture is five million

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cubic centimetres or five cubic metres.

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Now that's a lot of cubic centimetres

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but will it all fit in Gavin's wee van?

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Now let's start with the ball pit, yeah? Erm, I'm actually quite sad to see this go.

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I've got quite attached to this. I even gave all the balls a name, so that one's called Derek.

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-OK, right, can you help me work out the volume of this ball pit, please?

-Sure.

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What have you got?

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-80 centimetres.

-And I also have 80 centimetres.

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Er, but it is a cuboid so we need to measure the height as well, don't we?

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We do indeed. And the height's 30 centimetres.

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OK so that's 80 x 80 x 30.

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So it's a 192,000 cubic centimetres. Is there room in your van for this?

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-Plenty!

-OK, let's take it, come on!

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Gavin's van only holds five cubic metres.

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Let's hope his estimate of my stuff is right. Or it could be two trips!

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-Gavin, check me out! I've found some old clothes.

-Nice!

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But maybe we should stop monkeying around and get this stuff packed.

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-Fair enough, have you got something we could put this in?

-Yeah, we could put it in here.

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Do you remember how to calculate the volume of a cylinder?

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Yes, I do. Er, we need some measurements, don't we?

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We need to measure the height of the cylinder first of all.

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The height is 48 centimetres.

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OK and then we need the radius, so if you can do the diameter.

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The diameter is 46 centimetres.

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Which means the radius is half the diameter, which is 23 centimetres

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so now I've got an equation.

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So that's 79,730.88 cubic centimetres of my old clothes. In you go!

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The success of Gavin's business relies on accurate volume calculations.

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The wrong measurement of even the smallest objects can make or break a job.

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Right, I think that's everything packed. I think we've done it.

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Everything except for the sticky notes!

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Oh, disaster! Have we not accounted for these?

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Can we get these in your van? Better measure them. That's er, 7.6 centimetres...

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..by 7.6 centimetres by... by 7.6 centimetres!

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-Yeah, I think we can squeeze it in.

-Oh, thank Harry Styles!

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Right, come on. Let's get this stuff into the van. Come on!

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Great. Gavin was right. It did all fit into his wee van.

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Happy days! But even happier days because get this...

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I don't have to move it any more

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because I found a brilliant empty room to store it all in!

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How did I miss it? Honestly, I'm so unobservant sometimes.

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There's only one question remains. Does it have enough volume?

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You cannae trust these people, right, that want to make all the measurements metric.

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Honestly.

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Give them an inch and they take 1.609344 kilometres.

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Measurement. Who needs measurement? Well, we all need measurement.

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You measure everything. You measure time. You measure...

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distance. You measure space.

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You measure trousers.

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I could go on. The point is, it's hard to get a measure on how much we need measurement.

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I've been invited a very important party tonight

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so I've been clothes shopping.

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Hit the sales and er, you know what it's like.

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You go sale shopping and sometimes you buy stuff that doesn't quite fit.

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Clearly measurement is the issue here

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so I need to find someone who can do some clothes maths.

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And this is Elle. She seems stressed.

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Sorry, she's a seamstress.

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Yeah! I make and alter clothes.

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So do you think you can rescue these clothes and make me

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look sharp for this party and also, is there any maths involved in that?

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Well, maths is really important in dressmaking and altering clothes. Erm, measurement is key.

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And erm, when you get measurements wrong this is kind of what can happen.

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For example, this is far too big across the shoulders.

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And that's a little bit long in the sleeve.

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And then the trousers, you can see they're a bit snug and erm,

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a tad short. Erm...

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You've got a good eye.

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-What, er, is your inside leg measurement?

-Er, 34 inches?

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34 inches?

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Well, most of the time I work in centimetres.

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86. Just over 86 centimetres.

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-OK.

-It's quite long. So if I could ask you to hold that there.

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And you can see that these trousers are only 73 centimetres,

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which is far too short.

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-That's really quite short, isn't it?

-Yeah...

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Can these be rescued, then?

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Well... The only thing I could do is add some more material on to the bottom.

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Erm, but it would be different material

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and it would be quite an interesting look.

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I think I'll give that a miss.

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-Are you sure?

-Yeah, I think so. So, erm,

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-trousers for the bin, you think?

-I'm afraid so.

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OK. Right, OK, well, fair enough. Move on. Jacket.

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The jacket. Because the jacket's bigger, it's easier to make things smaller so you can take fabric out.

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So you can think then that you will be able to make this jacket look immeasurably sharp for the party?

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I'm pretty sure there's something we can do.

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So fashion isn't just about the look.

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The maths is crucial, too.

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Elle needs to be spot-on with her sums.

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One centimetre either way and I could be in fashion Alaska.

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Elle's taking care of my jacket to make sure

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I look dangerously good for the party tonight.

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Good enough even to justify a hat! Only one problem.

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I've got a massive head. Huge!

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Seriously, it's got its own moon and everything.

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This is the question.

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Do we have the maths to find a hat big enough for this watermelon?

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This is Pea. She's a milliner.

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That doesn't mean she's in a higher tax bracket,

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it means she makes hats from scratch, which is very impressive.

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OK now, be honest. You're the expert. Is there a hat for this bonce?

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Absolutely, Sanjeev. There's hats for everybody these days!

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A hat for everyone, she says.

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I'm not sure she knows what she's letting herself in for.

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Wow!

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All right, now see that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I like that.

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-Er, do you think maybe though, you could make it in a different material or something?

-Absolutely!

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Luckily this style is one-size-fits-all.

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Now, let's see where the maths comes in.

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This is the crown of the hat, Sanjeev.

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In order for me to work out how much wire I need,

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I need to know the circumference of this circle.

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Oh, the circumference.

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Ah, so you'll be measuring the diameter of the circle.

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-Yep, the diameter is 12 centimetres.

-Magic.

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This gives me a chance to showcase my very favourite equation.

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To work out the circumference,

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Pea needs to multiply pi by the diameter.

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But that's not the only measurement Pea needs for her business to be a success.

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It's very time consuming, this hat-making business, isn't it?

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Yeah, it really is.

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So on average, how long would it take to make a hat?

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I would probably be spending about 30 minutes

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on a consultation with someone.

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Possibly, 45 minutes pattern cutting.

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And then, maybe three and a half hours making a hat?

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-That's four hours and 45 minutes in total.

-Yeah.

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I look at the time it's taken to make the hat

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and then I look at the cost of the materials.

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And then I'll come up with the final price for the completed hat.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Am I getting charged for this?

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Well, Pea had to give me the hat for free because Elle sewed

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the money into the jacket pocket after she did this lovely fitting. Result! I'm off to a party!

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See you later!

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What did, what did, what did zero to say eight?

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Nice belt.

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Area. Who needs area? Well, we all need area.

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Area defines the size of the surface.

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And we all live on surfaces. Unless you're hovering.

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Are you hovering? No. Are you hoovering?

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Well, clearly not, judging by the state of your room. How long has that apple been there?

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If you are hoovering, though, you're hoovering a carpet. A surface. A surface that requires material.

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How much material? Area.

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This bathroom is minging. Don't worry, it's not mine!

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Like I would use a bathroom like this.

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No, it's my mate's and I've decided to give it a secret makeover.

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I've arranged for her to be away for the day and I'm going to transform this space and hopefully make her

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cry as well, because, well, all the best makeover shows do, don't they?

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I've got tiles, I've got paint.

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What I don't have is any idea if I've got too much or not enough of that stuff.

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I don't have much time but thankfully help is at hand.

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-This is Steven. How are you doing, Steven?

-Hi there. How are you?

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-Now you're a tiler by trade, aren't you?

-Yes, I am.

-So is maths something you use every day?

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Yes, we use it every day. We use it for pricing jobs and measuring jobs.

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So is area your specialist area?

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Yes, we need to work out how many tiles we need.

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OK. Good, so, you can help me to work out

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if I've got enough of THIS to cover all of this.

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-Yes, I can do.

-Cool. Let's do some magic!

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OK, Steven, where do we start?

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We need to work out where you want to tile.

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OK, well, here's my vision. OK. I'm thinking tiles from the bath up to the rail.

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-How far along do you want to go?

-Well, again, part of my vision is that I want to contain the

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aquatic space so I'm thinking just actually to the edge of the bath.

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-Then we'll need to measure the length by the height.

-OK.

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-Well, do you want to the length and I'll do the height?

-Fine.

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So the length is 170 centimetres

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and the height is 96 centimetres.

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Right, good so that's us worked out the area that needs to be tiled so do we have enough tiles?

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Yes, I think so but we'll need to measure the area of one tile to see if I've got enough.

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OK, right. Well, I'll hold the tile if you can do the measuring.

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It's 15 centimetres by 15 centimetres.

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OK. So the area of one tile is length times breadth, which is

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15 centimetres by 15 centimetres which is...

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225 square centimetres.

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(That's very good...)

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So to work out how many tiles we need,

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we divide that area by the area of that.

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That's correct, yes.

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Right, so we need 72.5 tiles. What does that mean?

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What we'll need to do now is we need to add 10% for waste

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or breakages which is about 80 tiles.

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-OK, so that's something that you normally do?

-Every time.

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-OK, well, that's good news because 80...we have 80, so we can get cracking.

-Yes.

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OK, good - let's get started then!

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-Right, these are all meant to be white.

-Yep.

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Er, well, this wasn't part of the vision.

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Right, do you know what, though? Let's get creative.

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Right, OK. Tell me what you think of this, OK? So we still have the white in the middle...

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-Yes.

-But, we use these tiles to sort of create a border round there.

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-Do you think that might work?

-Yes, just tile the perimeter in yellow then?

-Aha.

-Yes.

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-But do we have enough of these tiles to do that?

-We should do, yes.

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Steven's quick maths confirms I've got enough tiles for my border.

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Result!

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Wish I'd had his maths skills when I bought the paint.

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Turns out I've got enough for the bathroom, the kitchen and a small car.

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Oooh! My pal's going to love this!

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That's me finished.

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Well, I've just heard my friend is on her way back now

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and I genuinely, genuinely think we're going to see tears. Oh, yeah.

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FRIEND SCREAMS

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I always wear my glasses when I'm doing decimals.

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Don't see the point otherwise.

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AUDIENCE GROANS

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Who needs ratios and fractions? Well, you need ratios and fractions.

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You use them all the time!

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Give me half a minute.

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Can I have half rice, half chips?

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A third of my class are halfwits - which is the same as saying

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half of my class are third wits, mathematically speaking.

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One place you'll definitely need your ratios and fractions though, is in the kitchen.

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So here's the deal. I've got a pile of mince, the size of my head.

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That's a lot of mince. So I'm going to have some friends round for dinner tonight.

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20 people are coming. Yeah, I've got 20 friends.

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16 are from an agency but the point is I've decided to cook

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a big old pot of chilli for 20.

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What am I going to need to make chilli for 20?

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Well, I think the first think I'm going to need is a bit of help....

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-Hello, Emili!

-Hi, Sanjeev.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thanks.

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Good. Is maths something you would use in your everyday professional life?

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Absolutely! Every single day, whether I realise I'm doing it or not, I'm always using maths.

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-So what's the most you've ever catered for?

-Oh, I've catered for anything from one person to 1,001!

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Cool, so you could cope with 20.

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I think I can cope with 20.

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All you need is confidence in your recipe and some maths!

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Well, I've got my mum's secret chilli recipe here

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although I clearly got it from a website.

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Rumbled, Mum!

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But this recipe's only for four people.

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Oh, and we're catering for 20.

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Ah, so oh, right, so what now, then?

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Well, I guess we scale up from four to 20.

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So what we're doing then is, it's er, multiplying everything by five.

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-Yep.

-OK. I think I can cope with that.

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So it's er, 500 grams of mince times five is 2,500.

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600 grams chopped onions.

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OK, so two tins of tomatoes.

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-OK, so that's easy.

-Two times five.

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-Ten!

-That's it, you got it!

-Ten tins of tomatoes, OK.

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Ah, right, now. That wee guy's a fraction.

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One-and-a-third cans of kidney beans.

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-A bit more tricky.

-Yeah, why don't...

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What we could do, we could empty a can of kidney beans,

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count them and times that by five.

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That's crazy talk. Are you scared of a little fraction?

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I'm not scared of fractions!

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-Put in six and a bit.

-Six and a bit? OK.

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-Red peppers.

-Red peppers. Ten cloves of garlic.

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And one stock cube times five. Five stock cubes. OK, next up is the extra-hot chilli paste.

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And that's another fraction.

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Yeah, this is crucial because I get this wrong and we're spending the night in A&E, ha-ha!

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Argh!

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So five times 2.5. So that's 12.5 teaspoons of extra-hot chilli paste.

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-That's a lot of chilli paste, isn't it?

-Well, 20 is a lot of people.

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Fair enough, OK.

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When it comes to cooking, it's not just recipe and technique.

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There's maths in that pot.

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Top kitchen work, Emili.

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Er, that's the food in good shape, the chilli bubbling away there

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like, er, two pots of mince with other stuff in it.

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Hopefully in the right ratio.

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Er, but what about drinks for my wee soiree?

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Well, er, funny you should ask.

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Well, I'm a sophisticated kind of guy. Kind of know minor royalty.

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I eat fruit you probably never even heard of.

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So I want a sophisticated drink.

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I'm going for a non-alcoholic cocktail that's one I invented myself.

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I call it the Jazzy Handbag.

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It's four parts cola, two parts orange juice,

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one part chicken stock. Mmm!

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So I'm thinking a litre of this taste sensation per guest.

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20 guests - and er, not forgetting myself,

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that's 21 one litres of Jazzy Handbag.

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Who said I can't throw a party?

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Ahhhh!

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That's perfection. The chicken really dances on the tongue.

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So all we need now is guests.

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Now as you can see, I've invited them at 7.30 on Saturday

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and the time now is...

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..quarter to, that's 15 minutes to nine on...

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Friday.

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