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Downers Grove High School: Glossary Analysis

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How much consumable paper does our school use in one week? To me this question is asking in one week how much paper, in Downers Grove North High School, is produced and used over the course of 5 days. If I had to guess I would say we use about 1,035 pieces of paper are used in one week. I arrived at this estimate because I multiplied 21 (what I thought was the # of papers per class) by 5 (# of days in school week). Which came out to be 105 (Total # of papers 1 class uses in one day.) Then I multiplied that number by 7 (Typical # of classes in a day.) Then reached the number 735. I figured that number was too low, so I added an extra 300 for passes, posters and etc. The answer then came out to be 1,035. The obvious constraints to this problem …show more content…

First, multiply 7 (the typical number of classes a student takes) by 3 (an estimated amount of papers a student uses in one class). I chose the number 3 because i kept track of how many papers i got in each class for a day and then averaged it out and got 3. After I multiplied 7 by 3, I got 21 (which is the average number of papers used by a student in one day). I feel it’s reasonable to assume that this is the average amount of paper staff and/or faculty member would use as well. Then, I multiplied 21 by 5 (which is the number of days in a school week.) We then get the answer of 105 (The number of papers a member of North would use in a week.). Finally, we multiply 105 by 2488 (population of DGN, which includes all staff and students) and we arrive at the number 261,240 (number of papers used by DGN in one week). The reasonable range of this answer based on my calculations can go from 2,488 to about 300,000 if i were to round up my answer to the nearest 100,000. While I look back on my work I feel that there may have been some sources of error, such as I don’t know how recent the number of students and staff at DGN is. Also, I can never be sure what the average amount is for a student because all classes are

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