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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