Chapter 1: Whole Numbers Numbers in the Real World

Big Money

How much more do the big stars in Hollywood make than we do?  Check out the site Celeb-O-Meter.  After you type your annual salary and you select the celebrity, the computer will compute how long it will take you to make as much money as they do in one year.

For example, a factory worker making $20,000 wants to compare her salary to that of Barbra Streisand.  The computer gives her ANNUAL salary as $11,000,000.  It would take the factory worker 550 years to make that much money.
How much does Barbra make per month?    Per day? 
How should you round off her  per-day salary? 
List two other values that would round off to the same result.   

Go to the Celeb-O-Meter site and compare different salaries against different salaries of celebrities.  Verify the math as to salary per month, day, etc.
 
Salary of Celebrity #1     Your Projected Salary  
How many years will it take for you to make what the celebrity does in one year? 
How much does Celebrity #1 make in a week?    In a day? 
How many days will Celebrity #1 have to work in order to make your annual salary? 
 

Salary of Celebrity #2     Your Projected Salary  
How many years will it take for you to make what the celebrity does in one year? 
How much does Celebrity #2 make in a week?    In a day? 
How many days will Celebrity #2 have to work in order to make your annual salary?