Measurement and Setting Down Dimensions - Nr 3

The first (1st) working column of dimension paper is called?

• Binding column

• Timesing column

• Dimension column

• Extension column

How many pigs does it take to change a light bulb?

• 1 - one daddy pig.

• 2 one daddy and one mummy pig

• 3 daddy pigs

• 5 pigs

SMM7 should not now be used, why?

• Far too difficult to understand

• The tabular format causes confusion

• It is old school, NRM2 is the new SMM that should be used

• The students of classes 2003 & 2004 dont know how to read it.

Dimensions are always written in the dimension column to 2 decimal places.

• True

• False

Waste calculations, written in the description column, are always written to 3 decimal places

• True

• False

What is the purpose of the extension column on dimension paper.

• It is an extra column just in case more spece is required

• The column in which waste calculations can be written

• The space/column for writing the answer.

• It is for visual effect.

The bar/line underscoring the three sets of dimensions, in the picture to the left, means?

• The lines groups dimension together to give a neat, clear picture

• They mark the end of the mathematical expression.

• They mean nothing, it's just the way QSs write

If a dimension in the dimension column is written like this 1.00 (with an underscore) what unit of measurement does it indicate

• A number = number 1

• Linear metres

• An item

• Square metres

In the image on the left the QS has used a bracket. What do brackets do?

• Makes the taking off look neat and tidy

• Group/join dimensions with descriptions. Means the dimensions relate to the decription.

• Has no meaning

• Nothing

Taking-off describes what

• Taking dimensions from drawings.

• An airplane taking off from a runway

• Getting undressed - taking off ones cloths

• Has no meaning