Sheet # 9/The Winter Olympics
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Explain and Show Your Work.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong will start the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Torch Relay on December 4, 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 11,000 torchbearers will take the torch from Atlanta to Salt Lake City. It will travel over 13,500 miles through 125 cities in 46 states. It will arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February, 8, 2002, for the start of the Winter Games.
1) About how many days will it take for the torch travel from Atlanta, Georgia to Salt Lake City, Utah?
2) About how many miles would the torch travel each day?
3) About how many miles will each torchbearer run with the torch?
Answers for sheet # 9
1) Including December 4th, and February 8th, it is 67 days. 28 days in December + 31 days in January + 8 days in February
2) 13,500 miles divided by 67 days = About 190 to 200 miles/day
3) 13,500 miles divided by 11,000 torchbears . It is about a mile/torchbear