Olympic Puzzle
Posted in Math is Everywhere, Mathematics on February 13th, 2006 No Comments »
From think again!
(I’ll be passing this on to my College Algebra students who just completed their Rational Functions chapter.)
What’s the difference?
In the Olympic games in Munich in 1972 the gold medal on 400 m medley went to the Swedish swimmer Gunnar Larsson. Tim McKee got silver. Their respective times were 4 minutes 31.981 seconds and [...]