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Station 1:
Take some measurements and Calculate PI:
Arguably
the most famous number that is not an integer, pi comes from
dividing the distance around a circle by the greatest
distance across the circle: circumference divided by
diameter.
This
quotient or ratio equals the number pi no matter how big the circle
is. Even though this relationship has been known for thousands of
years, it was only 300 years ago that the Greek letter pi (the first
letter of the Greek word for “surrounding perimeter”) was
introduced. This number has a decimal representation which never
stops or repeats, although modern computers have now computed pi to
over a trillion decimal places!
See how
close you can come to
p!
5 points (1 point for each extra one completed and used in your
average)
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Can # |
Circumference (cm) |
Diameter (cm) |
Circumference
Diameter
(write as many places as your calculator displays) |
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1 |
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2 |
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3 |
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4 |
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5 EC |
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6 EC |
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7 EC |
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Average =
to find
p |
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