Chapter Performance Task - Pool Maintenance
Your pool service company has been very successful maintaining rectangular pools designed for swim meets and regulation competitions. Now, you want to expand your services to owners of private recreational pools. How will your experience transfer to pools of various shapes and sizes?
An Olympic Pool is rectangular with a length of 50 meters, width of 25 meters, and depth of 3 meters. Your client wants to build an Olympic-style pool with a similar shape, but with a length of 30 meters.
Find the scale factor of the new pool:
Find the perimeter of the Olympic-size pool:
With a partner, discuss two different ways to calculate the perimeter of the new pool. Explain each approach to this problem:
Method #1:
Method #2:
Use both methods described in Exercise to calculate the perimeter of your client's new pool.
Method #1:
Method #2: