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Olympics Team 3

  1. In a high jump event, Javier Sotomayor cleared a bar that was set at 3/4 of a meter. If the bar was then raised to 4/5 of a meter, by how much did it increase?

  2. In a relay race, a competitor from Ukraine covered 3/5 of the total distance. If the total distance was 25 kilometers, how far did the competitor cover?

  3. Simona Amânar from Romania scored 9.712 for her Gymnastics floor routine in the 2000 Olympics. She scored 38.642 in the Women’s Gymnastics all around competition. About how many times more points did she get in the All-Around compared to the Floor Routine?

  4. In figure skating, the judges award points based on skill. The more points you have, the more likely you are to win. Speed skating, however, is different. In speed skating, you win by being the fastest, and having the smaller time. Use the charts below to answer the following questions.

    1. Place the scores in the correct place. The names are listed in order of 1st (gold), 2nd (silver) and 3rd (bronze).

    2. ​By how many tenths of a second did Yang Yang win the Gold medal?

    3. How many hundredths of a second behind Evgeniya Radanova was Wang Chunlu?

    4. How many points away from a perfect score of 108 was Gold Medalist Alexei Yagudin in figure skating?

5.  A high jump bar is placed at a height of 2.32 meters. If Sergey Kliugin of Russia cleared

     the bar with a jump that is 2.35 meters high, how much space is left between him and the

      bar? Answer in hundredths of meters.

6.  The Olympic swimming pool is 50 meters long. If a swimmer completes one lap in 30

     seconds, how long will it take them to complete 16 laps? Answer in minutes and seconds.

7. Brooke Bennett of the United States won gold for the Women’s 800 Meter Freestyle

    Swimming (16 laps). Her time was 8 minutes and 19.670 seconds. We she going faster or

     slower than a swimmer who completed each lap in 30 seconds? How much faster or

     slower was her lap time?

8. A relay race consists of four runners. If the Australian team completes the race in 3

     minutes and each runner ran for the same amount of time, how long did they each run for?

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