In 2012 there was a contest to see who could get the 25 billionth app on the Apple App Store. My teacher, Mr. Oldfield challenged us to try and see when the App Store would hit 25 billion downloads. First I looked on the website http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/25billionapps/ and figured out how many downloads happened per minute. And to do that I just looked on his website and he had screenshots taken every minute of the number of downloads that were happening. I wrote down screenshots recorded at 6:27, 6:28, 6:29, and 6:30. I then added the numbers that I recorded for each time and divided them by 4. The answer that I got was average per minute. Then I took 25 billion and subtracted it by my last screenshot recorded, ( this is the downloads left until 25 billion.) I then took the hour per minute which is 9,974 and divided it by 60, because there is 60 minutes in an hour. After I did the math I got about 166 hours. And then I took 166 and divided it by 24, because there is 24 hours in a day. The quotient that I got was about 7 days. So I added seven days to the day February 24 ( that is the date that Dan Meyer took the screenshots on his computer.) I had to keep in mind that 2012 was a leap year (the year that the contest was held.) If the downloading of apps stayed at a constant rate the contest would be over on March 2nd around 6:00 PM. I think that the number would increase as the number of downloads got closer to 25 billion. So I would start to download apps around 3:30 PM.

This school year has been very good so far. I have learned a lot in math class and I like how we use lots of technology!

To find the square root of you have to find out the square root of 108, you will have to find out two numbers that are close to it. so 10 x 10= 100 and 11 x 11 = 111. So the number will be in between 10 and 11. I tried 10.4, which ended up to be 108.16. Since that was over 108 I tried 10.3 x 10.3, and that equals 106.09. That was the closest to 108 without going over. The square root of 108 is  10.3.

Our First test was about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing positive and negative numbers. The test also had word problems that included positive and negative numbers. An example of adding positive and negative number would be 7 + (-6) = 1

My name is Abby Herring, I like Cats, Cross Country, Tennis, and Track.

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