Olympics Team 1

Use chart 1 to answer the questions 1 & 2:

1. What fraction of the Olympic games were played on the North American continent?

   1. What fraction were played in Oceania?

2. How many medals were won in total when the games were played in North America?

   1. What fraction of the total medals was won by the United States?

   2. By Canada?

   3. By Mexico?

3. Write question 2 as a number sentence.

4. *BONUS: Which two continents aren’t represented on the chart?

5. When the torch was run for the 2000 Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, it was run 45,696 kilometers. When it was run for the 2002 Olympics held in Salt Lake City, Utah, it was run 35,570 miles. About how many KILOMETERS was it run in the United States? (Round to nearest whole number)

   1. How many MORE km was it run for the 2000 Olympics?

   2. About how many TIMES MORE km was it run in Australia?

   3. About how many MILES was it run in Australia? (Round to the nearest whole number)

Use chart 2 to answer questions 6 & 7.

  6. What fraction of medals were won by the host country, Australia, in the

     2000 Olympics?

  7. What fraction of medals were won by the host country, the United States,

       in the 2002 Olympics?

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BONUS: Let’s say we rounded the numbers and got the following fractions.

Australia: 60/360

US: 30/120

1. Look at the fractions. Which country do you think received the greater fraction of medals for their specific game? Why?

2.   Convert both fractions into equivalent fractions. Which country received the greater fraction of medals? Were you right?

3. Write it as a number sentence to show which is greater using the symbols <, >, or =.​

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