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You and your team of consultants will be planning various extreme sports events on the west coast of the U.S. You will apply your math skills to solve many problems that real people deal with. Each of your team must have every item done. There may be exceptions to this rule, but those will be noted. Please be clear and neat in your work and answers.
Your consultant team will have to solve for many scenarios. They are:
Planning and setting up for an FMX (Freestyle Motocross) event.
Planning and setting up for an Xgames skateboard/rollerblade/bmx half pipe event.
Planning and setting up for a skateboard big-air ramp.
Planning and setting up a snowboard park event. (Big jumps and rails)
Planning and setting up the band and stages for the entertainment for one of the above events.
Planning and setting up the catering service for the teams that arrive at one of the above events.
Through this process, you will also have to do some virtual traveling and use map skills. You will be asked to solve many mathematical problems. Many of those problems will be easy and obvious. You may also come up with many problems that you make and/or need to solve. This will be your chance to really apply real-world mathematics.
Your team will earn points for correct answers. Your team will also have the opportunity to earn bonus points. These will be in the form of more difficult problems or problems that you create and solve on your own. It's kind of a mystery right now, so you'll learn more as you go.
The first thing you must accomplish is to make a name for your consulting firm. It should be a name that is many things so that when you use the first letter of each word you spell another word. This is an acronym. Like CCDS! But yours will be different because your acronym will actually spell a word. After your firm (company) has a name, get a piece of construction paper and fold it in half. Put your firm's name on the front cover. Come on now, make it look good! Don't forget your personal name too!
You'll be using spreadsheets and even word and publisher from time to time to complete this task. Most of the math can be organized in a spreadsheet and if you enter the formulas into the cells it will calculate many of the things you need done! Fun, huh? Yippeee!
Some data will be given to you and you must use it whether it is truly accurate or not. In other cases, you'll have to research the information and make good decisions from that.
First things first. We need to get our equipment ready to haul. We're going to drive an eighteen wheeler and a motorhome. They both run on diesel fuel. Let's pretend that it's biomass diesel!
It sells for $3.15 for each gallon.
We're going to get on average 10 miles per gallon on the motorhome and 7 miles per gallon on the big rig.
You'll have a paid driver for each vehicle.
You are paying each of them $20.00 per negotiated mapped hour. That is, it isn't really the total time it takes them to drive, but the time that you estimate it to take. If they get there early, they get some free time. If it takes them longer, they drive for free.
You'll have to figure the cost for fuel and drivers in your travel expenses as well as food and hotel costs.
Problem number 1!
You are packing up and traveling from our school to Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Or.
Can you make it in a day or do you need to have an overnight stop?
How far of a trip is it?
How long should it take you?
How much will you spend on fuel costs?
How much do you budget for driver costs?
Your company is charging $22.00 per adult and $15.00 per child under 12. The Coliseum seats 8500. 72% of the capacity are adults. Your events are world renowned and you sell out.
How many adults attend?
How many children attend?
What is your total dollar amount of ticket sales?
You have to hire 20 men to unload your big rig and set up your big air ramp. You pay each of these people fifteen dollars per hour. It takes them sixteen hours to unload the truck and set up.
How much do you have to pay in total to get the truck unloaded and the ramp set up?
If it takes the same crew half of the set-up time to take down, how much will you have to pay to get everything back in the truck?
So, how much in total do you have to pay for set-up and take-down?
Using a scale of one inch equals five feet, make a drawing of your big air ramp. The real ramp must be thirty-five feet high and drop to a point that is fifty feet away. From this low point your ramp will travel twenty level feet before it ramps up twenty-five feet up in a ten foot span. It will create a quarter pipe. So, think of it like this: Your Danny Way type of character will drop from thirty-five feet down to ground level and skate along flat for twenty feet before shooting straight up a twenty five foot "wall." This last wall actually isn't really a wall, but has a slope that moves from the flat area ten feet back along the ground. Be sure to show your scale on your drawing. Make curves that make sense so your skaters don't die. They'll appreciate your math!
You take a break from the pressures of these events and you treat yourself to a nice dinner. You order a steak and potato dinner that includes a dinner salad. You also have a Shirley Temple because you are feeling splendid. Your total bill including tax is $28.62. If you were happy with the service, how much would you leave for a tip?
(x4 points) Now that the event was a huge success, you must figure out your total earnings. You do this by figuring out all of your earnings and subtracting out all of your costs. You must remember to add in the costs of your return trip.
(x10 bonus) If you figure in some hotel costs as well as food costs, you can get these ten bonus points. Choose a hotel near the coliseum. Figure for three nights. You will buy your driving and yourself three meals a day for four days. Use realistic amounts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If your instructor is happy with your numbers, you'll get the credits.
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