Everyday Math for 12-29-08

As we prepare to depart South Dakota, our oldest son, Tobias, says "Lets visit a million museums."

I asked him "If we dedicate 15 minutes to each museum, how many hours will it take to visit 1 million museums?"

The easy answer is to notice that 15 minutes is 1/4 of an hour and just divide 1,000,000 by 4 and get 250,000 hours.

The harder way to figure it out (which we worked out first) is to multiply 15X1,000,000 or 15 million minutes. Divide that by 60 (60minutes / hour) and you still get 250,000 hours.

I also asked him how many years 250,000 hours are. He got 28.51 years, longer than we were willing to take to get home.

I also mentioned that there aren't 1,000,000 museums in the world. I really didn't have a concrete number at the time but according to Wikipedia, there are tens of thousands of museums in the world.

Here is a short list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums