Thames High School’s ‘mathletes’ have been busy calculating during 2015’s Maths Week.
Three THS teams headed over to Hamilton to compete against 21 other regional schools in the annual WaiMaths competition.
The year 9 team included Eva Sorenson, Ester Schuchardt and Max Nankivell. The year 10 team was made up of Claudia Long, Sophie Clarke and James Harris. And the Year 11s were represented by Danielle Goodall and Jess Juby. Maths teacher Linnea McDonald said “It was an exciting night and the students did us proud!”
Meanwhile, back at school 10MCD and A3 JAG won the week long maths quiz. In second place were 9 SIM and H3 HUR, and third place went to 9EMY and D1 JHA.
The students were awarded house points for their entries. After the big count, Dorrington had 132 points, Rudman had 194, Holt 222 and Adams a massive 342 points.
Can you work these out? These questions were put to students on ‘Fractions and Formula Friday’ during Maths Week.
1. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
2. A large water tank has two inlet pipes (a large one and a small one) and one outlet pipe. It takes 2 hours to fill the tank with the large inlet pipe. On the other hand, it takes 4 hours to fill the tank with the small inlet pipe. The outlet pipe allows the full tank to be emptied in 6 hours. What fraction of the tank (initially empty) will be filled in 1.29 hours if all three pipes are in operation? Give your answer to two decimal places (e.g. 0.25, 0.50, or 0.75).
3. A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping, In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes, how many cartons did he ship?
4. What does this say? ECLART
What does this say? nhappy.
| Answers to ‘Fractions and Formula Friday’ questions.
1. Nothing
2. 0.75
3. 11 Boxes
4. Clarinet and unhappy without U
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