Sheet # 10/Ballpark
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Explain and Show Your Work.
1) Maria found the attendance reports for the first nine baseball games of the season to be 2787, 2683, 3319, 4009, 2993, 3419, 4108, 3539 and 4602. Tickets were sold for $10.75 each.
a) What was the average attendance of the games?
b) How much money was collected from the sale of the tickets?
2) One mile is 5,280 feet. A baseball diamond is a square with side 90 feet. In order to jog one mile, how many laps around baseball diamond would a person have to jog?
3) The seating capacity for the Giant Stadium is 65,000. The average price of tickets is $25.75. If 85% of the seats are sold for the game, how much money will be collected from the sale of the tickets?
Answers for sheet # 10
1) Total attendance = 31,459.
Average attendance = 3495
Money from the sale of the tickets = $338,184.25
2) Distance around baseball diamond = 360 feet
Number of laps = 5280/360
= 14.66 laps
= 15 laps
3) .85 x 65000 x $25.75 = $1,422,687.50