Sheet # 3/The Summer Olympics - Assorted Problems
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Explain and Show Your Work.
1) The Summer Olympics will start on September 15, 2000 and will end on October 1, 2000.
a) On what day of the week does it start?
b) On what day of the week does it end?
c) How many days will the Summer Olympics stay open?
2) I want to swim 45 laps. I have done 17. How many do I have left to do?
3) There are 8 runners in the race. Each runner wore a number from 1 to 8. Each runner had a different number. What is the sum of their numbers?
4) In the 1896 Olympic Games there were fewer than 500 athletes representing 13 nations. In the1988 Seoul Olympic Games athletes from 160 countries participated in the games. How many more countries participated in 1988 than in 1896?
5) The Olympic Games were first televised from London in 1948. How many years ago was that?
6) Women began competing in swimming at the 1912 Games. How many years ago was that?
7) The butterfly came to the Olympic swimming at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. How many years ago was that?
8) Each bus carries 25 athletes. How many buses must be ordered to take 85 athletics to the main stadium?
Answers for Sheet # 3 (Olympics)
1a) Friday
1b) Sunday
1c) 17 days 30 days in September minus 14 days past = 16 days plus 1 day in October = 17 days
2) 45 -17= 28
3) 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8=36
4) 160 -13 = 147
5) 2000 - 1948 = 52
6) 2000
-1912
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88
7) 2000
- 1956
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44
8) 85:25=3.4 Therefore 4 buses are needed to transport 85 athletes