My favourite poet

My favourite poet was Shel Silverstein because he was the author of my favourite poem.

Why I like him so much? Because he knows the feeling of someone who worries about everything and he wrote a poem about that which was very interesting. He also wrote a lot of poems. In example, Messy Room, Whatif, Bear In There, Picture Puzzle Piece, Cloony The Clown, etc. In total, he wrote 19 poems and most of them are very good.

Shel Silverstein is a truly unique and multi-faceted artist, Shel Silverstein was a renowned poet, playwright, illustrator, screenwriter, and songwriter. Best known for his immensely popular children’s books including The Giving Tree, Falling Up, and A Light in the Attic, Silverstein has delighted tens of millions of readers around the world, becoming one of the most popular and best-loved children's authors of all time.

He was born in Chicago on September 25, 1930, Sheldon Allan Silverstein grew up to attain an enormous public following, but always preferred to say little about himself. “When I was a kid,” he told Publishers Weekly in 1975, “I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls. But I couldn’t play ball. I couldn’t dance. So I started to draw and to write. I was lucky that I didn’t have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style.”

My favourite poem

My favourite poem is "Whatif" by Shel Silverstein.
Here was the poem:

Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I'm dumb in school?
Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there's poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
Whatif I get sick and die?
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?
Whatif I don't grow talle?
Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
Whatif the fish won't bite?
Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
Whatif they start a war?
Whatif my parents get divorced?
Whatif the bus is late?
Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight?
Whatif I tear my pants?
Whatif I never learn to dance?
Everything seems well, and then
the nighttime Whatifs strike again!

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He think of a lot of whatifs. In example, "Whatif I'm dumb in school?", "Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?", "Whatif I get beat up?". This shows that he was worry about those things.The next day, he found out that everything was normal. That night, he think of the whatifs again. This shows more that he was very worry about everything around him and about him. Even though what he think did not happen, he think of it again and again. This will make him worrying all the while which make life not peaceful. I think that he should not think of the whatifs anymore because it will make his life miserable. He should not think too much about those things that were nearly impossible to prevent the wastage of time.

My favourite part of village by the sea

My favourite part of the book is the ending of the book which describes that Hari's father has kicked the drinking habit which led the family into hardship for the years before. It also describes that Hari's mother has been recovered from the anaemia she suffered over the years. Hari, too, canme back from Bombay with a lot of money which he earned there. It was a happy ending because the family was originally a poor and dysfunctional family.

Being a City Rat or a Country Rat is better?

A city rat needs to spend a lot of time improving himself to catch up with the technology outside because the technology of a city is always improving. It also have a lot of entertainment there you will have no time spending on it since you need to improve yourself everyday.

A country rat will have more time than a city rat because we do not need to improve ourselves everyday since the technology there does not develop very fast. Therefore, we will have a lot of time spending on other things and make our life happier.

In my opinion, being a country rat is better because we can have more time to relax ourselves and a city rat have no time to do that.

2009 Question 11

If three prime numbers a, b and c also can be written as ab^bc + a = 2000,
find the value of a+b+c.

2009 Question 10

If Ali needs to take medicine A every 3 hours, medicine B every 5 hours, medicine C every 7 hours and medicine D every 9 hours, when is the next time he will take all the medicine at the same time if he take all together in a Wednesday 5.00 pm ?

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Hint: Find the LCM of the time and add it to the time he take the medicine together

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Languange Arts Assignment 2

I considered this article a character-driven story because it tells us about the life of a girl, Oh Siew May.

She is a 39-year-old woman infected with celebral palsy. She has a unlucky and miserable life not only because she has been infected by the celebral palsy, she even has a father who eventually died of cancer. She even has an impaired sister and his brother gambled a lot and waste all the money earned by her parents.

But Miss Oh did not give up on her dream because there is someone supported her. She has unwillingness to give up on anything she wanted to do. She strive to make dreams come true. She has climbed Mount Kinabalu, which is one of the highest mountains of South-East Asia and despites being disadvantaged and being looked-down by the normal people. Other than that, she even wrote a book of her life and she encouraged many people in this world because people will think how a disabled person climb such a high mountain.. Her friends helped her to publish the book with their own willingness and spend their own money in order to encourage people to think positively to end it with a success.

We should learn from her good attitudes and not give up easily although we are disabled and we should also learn being helpful and kind from her friends. This can make us have more friends around us.

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Do you think we can still succeed like her if we learn from her?

2009 Question 9

How many factors does 600 have?

How to do?

1. Write the number into index notation. e.g 240=2⁴x3¹5¹

2. Add all the index by 1. e.g 2⁴=4+1 The 4 is from the index above 2

3. multiply all the index that was added then you get the answer

2009 Question 8

How many ways are there to arrange the letters A, B, C, D, E, F? What if the vowels cannot be side by side?

Language Arts Assignment

Australia Mourns Bush Fire Victims

I considered the article an idea-driven story because it tells us about the bush fire that happened in Victoria, Australia and it also tells us about there were many people who went to Australia for memorial ceremony that was made for the victims of the bush fire.There were also some important person who attend the memorial service such as the prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, Queen Elizabeth's daughter, Princess Anne, etc. All the television networks of Australia also interrupted their normal programme to broadcast the ceremony live.

I suggest the Australian government can provide strong forces of fire brigades to the state that was in dry weather. Once the place happens bush fire, there are strong forces of fire brigades to put out the fire, this can reduce the lost of lives in the bush fire.

Therefore, the villagers there will feel safe because whenever there is fire, the fire fighters are ready to put out the fire without any hesitation.

I felt pity for them because there are 209 innocent people were killed by the deadly bush fire.

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Q: Do you think the Australian government is good?

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2009 Question 7

1²+2²+3²+4²......+90²

2009 Question 6

Find all pairs of positive integers m,n > 3 for which there exist infinitely many positive integers a such that it became the same as the picture shown above.

2009 Question 5

Let n be a positive integer.Let T be the set of points (x,y) in the plane where x and y are non-negative integers and x + y < n.
Each point of T is coloured red or blue.If a point (x,y) is red,then so are all points (x¹,y¹) of T with both x¹ and y¹ < y.Define an X-set to be a set of n blue points having distinct x-coordinates,and a Y-set to be a set of n blue points having distinct y-coordinates.Prove that the number of X-sets is equal to the number of Y-sets.

2009 Question 4

Find the smallest 7 digit number where
(i)the first digit is 8
(ii)all the digits are diferrent
(iii)the number is divisible by 3

2009 Question 3

1/2 x 2/3 x 3/4 x 4/5 x 5/6 x 6/7......x 2008/2009 + 2008/2009 =

2009 Question 2

The figure shows a rectangle 9cm long and 6 cm wide was divided into 4 triangles with areas S1,S2,S3 and S4 respectively.Given that S1=S2=S3+S4.Find S4

2009 Question 1

Find the value of (x²-x-2)(3x+2)

Easy Question

Find the value of 1222x12211221-1221x12221221

Hard Question

Buses from town A to town B leave every hour on the hour(for example:6:00,7:00,...)

Buses from town B to town A leave every hour on the half hour(for example:6:30,7:30,...)

The trip between town A and town B takes 5 hours.Assume the buses travel on the same road.

If you get on a bus from town A,how many buses from town B do you pass on the road(not including those at the stations)?

Medium Question

A record shows that a school have 81 people kick football,74 people play basketball and 44 people play badminton.There are also 59 people who play both basketball and football,37 people who play football and badminton,27 people who play basketball and badminton.There are also 21 people who play the three games.

Find the total number of people

Easy Question

Find the value of 1^2-2^2+3^2-4^2+5^2-6^2......-100^2
*1^2=1 , 2^2=4 3^2=9 , 4^2=16

Hard Question

a+b+c =0 , simplify (a+b)(b+c)(c+a)+abc

Medium Question

1/a + 1/b + 1/c = 1/2009
find the value of a,b,and c

Easy Question

a,b,and c are positive integers and a < b < c.
m is an integer,where 1/a + 1/b + 1/c =m
find the value of a,b,and c

Hard Question

Peter has a robot.If he press 'A' button of the robot,the robot moves 1 step forward.If he press 'B' button of the robot,the robot moves 2 steps forward.If he press 'C button of the robot, the robot moves forward 3 steps.If he press the 'D button of the robot, the robot moves 4 steps forward

a)If he wants the robot to move 10 steps forward,how many ways can the robot move?

b)If he wants the robot to move 15 steps forward,how many ways can the robot move?

Medium Question

The sum of two prime numbers is 1999.Find the product of these two numbers.

Easy Question

The product of three consecutive natural numbers is 1716.Find the numbers.

Hard Question

1^3+2^3+3^3+4^3+5^3+6^3......100^3

*e.g.   1^3=1 , 2^3=8 , 3^3=27 , 4^3=64

Medium Question

1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10x11x12......x100 has how many zeros?

Easy Question

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11......+12400=

Questions are on every weekend

Question are usually on weekends because i have not much question.And i will post questions until Term 1 finish.

'Easy' Question

Peter has a robot , if he press 'A' key of the robot ,it moves 1 step forward.If he press 'B' key of the robot, it moves 2 steps forward.If he press 'C' key of the robot it moves 3 steps forward.
If Peter wants the robot to move forward 1 step, there is only a way.
If Peter wants the robot to move forward 2 step, there are 2 way.

a)Peter wants his robot to move forward 10 steps, how many way(s) can the robot move forward ?

b)Peter wants his robot to move forward 15 steps, how many way(s) can the robot move forward ?

Medium Question

How many ways to go from P to R,passing the point Q?

Easy Question

How many triangles are there in the diagram shown at the right?