Götterfunken said:
For those that where at the open day, you may remember one of the tents near the E7B building a (mq?) student was running a survey about a down turn in students picking science type courses, etc. The survey was two pages, and required some thought to complete. A reward for fulling out this survey was the chance to win either a Borders or Co-op book voucher.
Long story short, I just got a phone call from the person that was doing it, and she told me I had won the co-op book voucher! Hurrah! I so rarely win things, so I’m one happy little boy, let me tell you.
Ok, well you're new so I'll cut you a break.
This is how you convert The Standard Dollar (TSD) to the Co-op Dollar (COD). Both, confusingly, use the $ sign, with both calling their currency 'The Australian Dollar'. Most confusingly is that they use the same notes and coins, and will withdraw money from your TSD bank-account using the COD value:
You find the current conversion rate for teh Japanese Yen to the Australian Dollar. At the moment, it's something like 1:0.01175. Although it's slightly different (0.012), I like to say that the Yen and the COD have the same numerical conversion.
Anyway, so you walk into the Co-op shop with your 100 TSD note (it's green). You pick up your books and note that, whilst you pay with your green 'Australian' note, you've suddenly moved into a world where the COD rules- with a factor of just more than 1:100- you've taken in the green note, but it's worth has somehow DROPPED to that of the big gold coin.
Generally speaking, students find that the conversion rate changes so much that they have to sell their clothes, engagement rings, and mobile phones just to buy books.
That being said. What value is your voucher?
