Choose Your Own Adventure –
Equestrian Edition
Name ____________________
Date ______________________
1.
Between 1993 and 1996, there were 6,545 injuries during horse races. Find the
ratio of injuries per year.
2.
Women today account for 17% of jockeys in Victoria, Australia. If there are 75
jockeys on a track, how many would be girls?
3.
Successful jockeys must be very strong and athletic to control a horse that is
moving at 40 mph and weighs 1,200 pounds. The average jockey weighs 120
pounds. What is the ratio of the weights of horse and jockey?
4.
A horse that is 14 hands tall weighs 850 pounds. What would a horse that is 16
hands tall weigh?
5.
A horse needs 2 pounds of food for every 100 pounds of its body weight per
day. If a horse weighs 1,250 pounds, how many pounds of food will it need in a
day?
a)
How much food will be needed for a week?
6.
The Tevis Cup is an endurance race run in California. This race is a 100 mile
one-day-long ride. How many miles must a horse run in an hour to complete
the race?
7.
100 jockeys were killed in the US between 1950 and 1987. How many jockeys
would you expect to be killed between 2005 and 2010?
8.
3 horses die in racing for every 2000 racing starts. If a racetrack runs 5,000
races per year, how many horses can be expected to die at that track?
Choose Your Own Adventure –
Medical Edition
Name ____________________
Date ______________________
1.
The number of emergency room visits in the US is 116,800,000. Of those,
39,400,000 were for an injury. If there are 110,000 visits in Alabama, how
many are for injury?
2.
Children’s Advil suggests that a child receive 0.625 mL of medicine per 10
pounds of weight. How much medicine should a child weighing 45 pounds
receive?
3.
A doctor orders Lasix 40mg IV push now. The hospital has available 80mg per
1mL. How many mL of medicine should be administered?
4.
A patient’s femur bone measures 17 inches. Her height is 64 inches. If another
patient is 70 inches tall, how long would her femur bone be?
5.
An ultrasound technician measures the length of an unborn baby from crown
to rump. She uses this measurement to estimate weight. A crown to rump
measurement of 1.6 cm estimates a weight of 1 gram. Estimate the weight of a
fetus with a crown to rump measurement of 8 cm.
a)
Find the weight of a fetus with a crown-to-rump measurement of 21 cm.
6.
A prescription for Singulair costs $14 for a one month supply. How much will
this prescription cost for a year?
7.
In the US, EMTs held about 210,700 jobs in 2008. Of the 20 EMTs in the
Harvest area, 9 worked for an ambulance service. How many EMTs worked for
ambulance services in the US?
8.
17% of the total number of registered nurse practitioners work in hospitals. If
there are 2,618,700 RNs in the US, how many work in hospitals?
Choose Your Own Adventure –
Sports Edition
Name ____________________
Date ______________________
1.
There were 16,000 skateboarding related injuries in 1983. Of those, 13,920
injuries were sustained by males. Find the ratio of males to total injured
people.
2.
A skydiving company offers a package of 8 jumps for $1,500. What would be a
reasonable price for 3 jumps?
3.
A ski-jump that is 125 meters long can give jump distances of over 145 meters.
How long would a jump distance be for a ski-jump that is 100 meters long?
4.
A baseball player got 27 base hits in 73 at-bats. How many hits should he
expect to get in 15 at-bats?
5.
The Sparkman High School football team has won 5 of the last 20 games
played. At that rate, how many games would you expect them to have won in
the last 100 games?
6.
There are 154,345 male high school seniors that play basketball and 4,859 of
them will play their freshman year of college. How many of Sparkman’s 345
male seniors should expect to play college basketball?
7.
Of the 3,456 senior college women’s basketball players, 32 will be drafted into
the WNBA. Find the ratio of professional to college players.
a)
8.
If there are 180 scholarship athletes on SEC women’s basketball teams,
how many of those would you expect to be drafted into the WNBA?
A junior Olympic medalist weighs 135 pounds and is 5’3” (63 inches) tall. If
this is average, what would a 6’ (72 inches) gymnast weigh?