Waverly, New York is located between Elmira, NY and Sayre, PA off of I86. Waverly School District ha

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Waverly Math Prblems

• Waverly, New York is located between Elmira,
  NY and Sayre, PA off of I86. Waverly School
  District has 4 schools with a population of
  2,200.

This math trail begins in Mrs. Lockers 8th grade
math class. The students were grouped so that
their were about 6 people per group with 3 groups
per class. The groups were heterogeneously
grouped. Each group had to pick some thing in
their community research it and develop a math
question about the attraction.
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Group 1's Problem
BY Stuart Deming, Chase Emerson, Angel
Gallagher, Joshua Lawrence, Alicia Miller, Brain
Thall Derek Williamson
How many laps would it take to complete a 500
yard swim in the pool below?
V18900
42 Ft.
4 Ft.
5 Ft.
10 Ft.
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Group 2's Problem
By Alanna Cerretani, Chelsey Goodman, Jacklynn
Pettit, Amy Scrivener, Justin Simpson, George
Sindoni
What is the area of the tennis court at the
Watkins Glen Park if the measurements are 10ft by
20ft? What is the length of the diagonal?
10ft
20ft
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Group 3's Problem
By Justin Kinney, Brittany Robbins, Brittany
Sandroni, Elizabeth Stanton, Josh Talladay,
William Vergason, Breanna Wilson
If a horses average speed is 30mph and the track
length at the Tioga Raceway is 1/4 mile, how long
will it take the horse to run four laps?
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Group 4's Problem
By Michael Beard, Carriejean Bellows, Paul
Crockett, Brionna Fassett, Rachel Giovenco, Doug
Jones, Kesley Shaffer
Chinese Buffet
Leftys
16
4
8
3
6
How many people like the Chinese Buffet if 64
people were asked?
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Nocchis
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Group 5's Problem
By Elizabeth Baggerly, Rory Haggerty, Zach
Mandeville, Jimmy Peppard, Christina Scrivener,
Alison Singerhoff, Jason Snedeker
If the Chemung Speedway is 1,760 ft long and a
car is going 100mph, how long would it take to
complete a 120 lap race?
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Bethany Dishler did a question by herself as she
was absent for most of the in class work.
What is the area of the Waverly bus garage if it
fits 8 busses across and each bus is20.5 ft by 32
ft? The busses park 2 deep.
Bethany's Question
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Group 7's Problem
By Rochelle Carlise, Sabato DePrimo, Tom
Hyland, Caitlin Ropp, Dominic Spezialetti
Compare the ratio of kids in band (89) to kids in
chorus (78) to the ratio of students (311) to
teachers (37).
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Answers
1. VBhBh 18900.5(45)42x.5(510)42x 18900
.5942x.51542x 189004.542x7.542x 18900189
x315x 18900504x 18900/504x 37.5x 37.5275ft 7
5ft/325yrd. 500/2520 laps
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2. Alw A1020 A200 10102020diagonal 100400
diagonal square root 500 to get diagonal 22.36
ft. 3. 60mph1mile per minute 30mph is half the
speed so it would take twice as long or
2minutes. 4. First add up all the numbers to get
47. Second subtract your answer from 64. You
should get 17. Third add the numbers in the
Chinese Buffet circle for 32.
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5. 1760/52801/3mile 1/3mile 120lap40
miles Set up a proportion of 100mph and 40 miles
per x? Your answer will be .4hrs Set up a
proportion of 1 hour to 60 minutes and .4 hours
to x minutes. Your final answer will be 24
minutes. 6. The width of the bus times the
number of busses will give the width of the
garage. Which is 164ft. 2 times the length of
the bus will give the length of the garage.
Which is 64 ft. Now multiply your two answers.
10496. 7. 89/78