Chapter 7: Measurement Numbers in the Real World

Olympic Proportions

Listed below in the table are a few of the Olympic records for men.
 
 

Event	Record	Athlete	Country	Date
1,500 meters	3:32.53	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	8/11/84
26 mi Marathon	2:09:21.0	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	8/12/84
High Jump	2.28m	Guennadi Avdeenko	Russia	9/25/88
Discus	225' 9"	Jurgen Schult	East Germany	10/01/88
108 kg Weightlifting	946 lb	Timur Taimazov	Ukraine	7/29/96

 
How many kilometers did Sebastian Coe run?    How many centimeters? 
How many seconds did it take him to run the 1,500 meters? 

How many minutes did it take Carlos Lopes to win the Marathon? 
How many yards did Carlos Lopes run? 
A football field is 100 yards long.  How many lengths of a football field did he run? 

Translate the high jump record into feet.    Into inches. 
How many millimeters is it? 

How many feet did Jurgen Schult throw the discus?    How many yards? 

What is the maximum weight in pounds that Timur Taimazov could have weighed? 
How many tons did he lift?    How many times his weight did he lift?