Imperial Measures

What if you slipped off the ladder and spilt some??

Metric or imperial, you could do maths, or you could simply Google the area of the wall and read the back of the paint tin for coverage.

25Avalon

Ixion I have old coins too but none of any great value ……. Yet! The cigar box you keep them in may be worth something.

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Ixion I have old coins too but none of any great value ……. Yet! The cigar box you keep them in may be worth something.

But paint only comes in litre quantities so you'd probably still need 2 litres. But you would need a ladder now and more patience.

volver

Updated for the 21st century.

Paint is sold in litres. One litre of paint costs 62p. 125ml covers one square metre. A wall is 4 metres long and 3 metres high. How many litres of paint must the painter buy to paint the wall? How much will it cost?’

2 litres and £1.24.

Did it in my head in about 30 seconds. Shall we have one in hex? Might as well.

What if it is the interior wall of a house that is next to the staircase, but above the hall is a room reached from the upstairs landing,

So the wall like a rectangle but with a square removed at upper right and a triangle removed at lower left, leaving the wall to be painted as a polygon with seven sides, would be a bit harder.

25Avalon

Idiom try “Sean’s Standard Catalogue of British Coins”. No guarantee any collector will buy though. If you have an old groat now that might be worth something. Or an old silver three pence.

Thank you 25Avalon. Should I come into ££££s, we can split it!
I show my children this box occasionally, telling them that this holds the key to their fortune when I am gone.

They laugh...

Katie59

Now work it all out long hand without a calculator

Not so difficult with metric, most of us had to do it at junior school. £sd, pints, gallons, pounds ounces and hundredweight.

No thanks

Ah a hundredweight.

No clue in the name though.

112 pounds if I remember correctly.

Is that 8 stones?

Not Sean’s, stupid predictive text. Seaby

Idiom try “Sean’s Standard Catalogue of British Coins”. No guarantee any collector will buy though. If you have an old groat now that might be worth something. Or an old silver three pence.

I’m sure SD will be along soon with a handy link ixion.

History buff here.

Updated for the 21st century.

Paint is sold in litres. One litre of paint costs 62p. 125ml covers one square metre. A wall is 4 metres long and 3 metres high. How many litres of paint must the painter buy to paint the wall? How much will it cost?’

2 litres and £1.24.

Did it in my head in about 30 seconds. Shall we have one in hex? Might as well.

25Avalon

With inflation running as it is and the use of plastic I don’t think the groat is going to make a return anytime soon ? Likewise the farthing and halfpenny unless you have a rare one.

How could I find out whether my wooden cigar box full of Victorian coinage harbours a rarity or two?

Germanshepherdsmum

Surely we all know what a groat was? Do we need to be patronised with a link? No.

Goodness me, GSM, you must be really old if you remember them and don't need a wiki article to inform you. Groats went out of circulation in 1856. I doubt if many people, apart from history buffs, know what they were worth.

With inflation running as it is and the use of plastic I don’t think the groat is going to make a return anytime soon ? Likewise the farthing and halfpenny unless you have a rare one.

Katie59

Now work it all out long hand without a calculator

Not so difficult with metric, most of us had to do it at junior school. £sd, pints, gallons, pounds ounces and hundredweight.

No thanks

Katie, I worked it out longhand without a calculator, took a fewer than 5 minutes and it was easy. And this is the woman who barely scraped O level maths after an extra term of tuition..

I think it's interesting that the problem actually requires some application of logical thought. People working in base 10 all the time don't have to practise that skill.

Surely we all know what a groat was? Do we need to be patronised with a link? No.

Now work it all out long hand without a calculator

Not so difficult with metric, most of us had to do it at junior school. £sd, pints, gallons, pounds ounces and hundredweight.

No thanks

Mention of the groat set me searching.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groat_(coin)

will the pints of paint have crowns on or just the ones made by crown?

MaizieD posted while I was preparing my post, so the answer to the third question is now I don't know, but the number is at least two.

MaizieD

^I made the cost £3/2/6d for 5 galls.^

Blimey, to think I've recently paid £70+ for 5litres of exterior satin... ?

Paint was cheaper then!

Well done, StarDreamer. I wonder how many others had a go?

25Avalon

Star dreamer I think drinkers are more interested in what’s in their glass and they haven’t been short measured, than in which way round they hold their glass.

Indeed.

There is the story I was told long ago - it might not have ever happened, but maybe it did - of the man who ordered a pint of beer in a pub and when handed the glass of beer by the publican asked him if he would be able to add a measure of whisky into the glass without there being any spillage. The publican replied that he could do that and reached for the bottle of whisky, thinkng he had got another sale, whereupon the customer said that in that case could he fill it with beer as he should have done in the first place.

I made the cost £3/2/6d for 5 galls.

Blimey, to think I've recently paid £70+ for 5litres of exterior satin... ?