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Count and estimate t-shirts tossed!

Instructions

Look for a t-shirt toss during a time-out. Keep track of the total number of t-shirts tossed. To aid in your counting, tap the button to the right. Once the t-shirt toss is over, here are a few questions for you. If you lose track of the number of shirts, then use an estimate.

Questions

  1. How many shirts were tossed?
  2. How many t-shirt toss events would be needed to fling 1,000 shirts?
  3. Overtime Question: Look up the attendance of the game. How many t-shirt tosses would be needed to toss as many shirts as there are fans at the game?
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Solution

Overtime question: Let's see how to do this for 15,000 fans if 16 shirts were distributed in one t-shirt toss. Then, we need 15,000/16 = 937.5 t-shirt tosses. Since there can't be half a t-shirt toss, we round up to 938 t-shirt tosses, which is a t-shirt toss about every 10 seconds in a game lasting two and half hours.

T-shirt events required to fling 1000 shirts 0
T-shirt events required for current attendance 0