Today Puzzle #738
Puzzle No. 738鈥� Wednesday 13 May 2020
Today is the National Numeracy Day virtual festival, a series of online events to help with numeracy with speakers including former Children's Laureate Lauren Child and Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane. Last year, 250,000 numeracy questions were answered on National Numeracy Day. If each question took on average 30 seconds, how many days of questions were completed on this day in 2019?
Today's #PuzzleForToday has been set by Bobby Seagull and fellow maths teacher Susan Okereke, who are both co-hosts of the Maths Appeal podcast.
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86.41 days
250,000 x 30 seconds = 7,500,000 seconds
In one day there are 86,400 seconds (24 hours x 60 mins x 60 secs)
7,500,000 / 86,400 = 86.41 days
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