Real-Life Math -- Solution
You want to figure out how many visitors you can handle.
750
words every 5 minutes
750 / 5 = 150 words per minute
2,400
words in talk
2,400 / 150 = 16 minutes
16 + 15 (questions)
= 31 minutes
8 hours total - 1 hour for breaks = 7 hours
Convert
to minutes
7 x 60 = 420 minutes
420 / 31 = 13.5
You can
meet with 13 groups per day. How many visitors is that per week?
13
groups per day x 30 visitors per group = 390 visitors per day
390 visitors
per day x 5 days per week = 1,950
You can meet with 1,950 visitors
per week.
According to museum curator Paul Thistle, math skills are
only important to specific interpretative programs. If, for example, the park
has a dam construction or a 70-mile ditch up and down a valley, some sense
of the math and engineering behind the original construction would help.
Thistle
says, "We haven't got any specific programs where math would be significant."