Name: Miles Nicole Barcelona

Grade & Section: Grade 9 Anderson

Date: November 3, 2016

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Battersea, Nine Elms & Vauxhall

This vast stretch of prime, undeveloped riverside land recently
received two significant boosts. The 620m new American
Embassy at Battersea gained planning permission and a
Malaysian consortium paid 400m to buy the Battersea Power
Station site and deliver the Rafael Violy-designed 8bn
consented masterplan. Phase One is set to be submitted for
planning and if approved, could be complete by 2015. There is still ample room for scepticism here:
Battersea Power Station has had more new beginnings than the England football team. However, these
two recent developments arguably represent the best opportunity to finally regenerate the sprawling 450
acre site in a generation. The Battersea Power Station scheme
will provide 3,500 homes, a park, leisure and retail amenities,
up to 25,000 jobs and potentially, an extension to the Northern
Line.

Earls Court
The scheme that is said to be Londons biggest new
construction project since the Olympics received planning permission last month. Terry Farrells gigantic
77 acre, 8bn masterplan for the redevelopment of Earls Court and West Kensington will create 11.4
million ft2 of mixed uses including 7,583 homes, a 5 acre park, retail, leisure and hotel amenities, a school
and, according to Hammersmith & Fulham council, 35,000 construction jobs over 20 years. The proposed
demolition of the iconic Earls Court Exhibition Centre and some
local housing estates has sparked controversy. Nevertheless
construction of the 300m first phase which will provide 800
homes is expected to start next year.

Crossrail
Although Europes biggest engineering project is not scheduled
to finish until 2018, 2015 will mark the completion of its first station, Canary Wharf (left). In total the 73
mile, 16bn network will link 37 new stations, eight of them underground and provide additional capacity
for 200 million commuters. There is unlikely to be any major tube expansion before Crossrail is complete
and sadly Crossrail 2, the long anticipated and desperately needed new route between Hackney and
Chelsea, is unlikely to start until HS2 has finished, should HS2 proceed.

Vauxhall Tower
Quite how a development as universally ridiculed as St
Georges Wharf could contrive so successful a means to
sustain derision in perpetuity is an engineering feat in itself.
Despite its complete lack of architectural merit and the visual devastation it has already wreaked on the
townscape of swathes of south and central London, Berkeley Homes and Broadway Malyans 49-storey,
181m high surgical cylinder will be the UKs tallest residential
tower and symbolises, albeit comically, the wider regeneration
of the Vauxhall and Nine Elms regeneration area.

Olympic stadium
The fiasco surrounding the as yet undecided conversion of the
Olympic stadium is a pertinent lesson in the manifest perils of
not fixing the post-Games legacy of major sporting venues well before construction has even begun. West
Ham FCs previously successful bid (above) still makes the most convincing economic and usage case,
even if further public money may be required to convert it into an effective multi-purpose venue. While
history shows that most Olympic stadiums traditionally end up as abandoned inconveniences after the
games, London 2012s pronounced emphasis on legacy and regeneration
means that we cannot afford the luxury of failure. The London Legacy
Development Corporation will decide the stadiums fate later this month.

Direct Variation
For example, a worker may be paid according to the number of hours he
worked. The two quantities x (the number of hours worked) and y (the amount paid) are related in such a
way that when x changes, y changes proportionately such that the ratio
remains a constant.
We say that y varies directly with x. Let us represent the constant by k, i.e.
or y = kx where k 0

If y varies directly as x, this relation is written as y

is read varies as and is called the sign of variation.
Example:

x and read as y varies as x. The sign

If y varies directly as x and given y = 9 when x = 5, find:

the equation connecting x and y
the value of y when x = 15
the value of x when y = 6
Solution:
a) y
x i.e. y = kx where k is a constant
Substitute x = 5 and y = 9 into the equation:

y=
x
b) Substitute x = 15 into the equation
y=
= 27
c) Substitute y = 6 into the equation

Inverse Variation
The population of a certain species of bacteria varies directly with the temperature. When the temperature
is 35 degrees Celsius, there are 7 million bacteria. How many millions of bacteria are there when the
temperature is 38 degrees Celsius?
First of all, we can see that we'll be using the direct variation equation, y = kx.
Now let's plug in what we have from the problem:
The problem gives us two values: temperature and number of bacteria. We'll plug in the temperature
for x and the number of bacteria for y. This gives us 7 = k(35).
Now all we have to do is divide to find the value of k for this particular problem: it turns out to be 0.2.
The next step is to use that value to find out how many millions of bacteria there are at 38 degrees
Celsius. So, we use the equation again.
This time, we'll plug in x and k, since we're looking for y. We find that y = (0.2)(38). Do the
multiplication, and we learn that y, or the value of the population in millions is 7.6. So the answer to this
question would be 7.6 million bacteria.
That wasn't so painful, right? It's just about using the equations
properly. Now let's try one that's a little harder.
Joint Variation and Combined Variation
The average number of phone calls per day between two cities
has found to be jointly proportional to the populations of the
cities, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance
between the two cities. The population of Charlotte is about 1,500,000 and the population of Nashville is
about 1,200,000, and the distance between the two cities is about 400 miles. The average number of calls
between the cities is about 200,000.
(a) Find the k and write the equation of variation.
(b) The average number of daily phone calls between Charlotte and Indianapolis (which has a population
of about 1,700,000) is about 134,000. Find the distance between the two cities.
Solution:
This one looks really tough, but its really not that bad if you take it one step at a time:

Submitted by:

Miles Nicole Barcelona

Submitted to:
Robert Jhon Baril