Why It Matters: Applications With Decimals
Why learn how to apply your knowledge of decimals to real world scenarios?
As the long jump coach at Hamilton Middle School, Jeffrey enjoys tracking his students' progress and helping them set goals for future meets. It's the start of a new track season, and Jeffrey's working to establish expectations for the new long jumpers on the team. He thinks it might be helpful to find the average jump of three of his returning long jumpers so he can give the new jumpers an idea of what to aim for. At the first practice, Jeffrey asks Pedro, Elena, and Roy to show the new jumpers how it's done. He records the following distances for their jumps:- Pedro: 5.51 meters
- Elena: 5.87 meters
- Roy: 3.92 meters
- 4.54 meters
- 3.89 meters
- 6.02 meters
- 4.54 meters
- 5.31 meters
- 3.91 meters
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