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May 30, 2021 | Granite Bay

Did you figure it out?

Solution: First, we subtract 1792 from 2016 to find that it’s been 224 years since the second presidential election. Next, we divide 224 by 4 to find that there have been 56 election cycles since 1792. Finally, we add 2 elections for the 1st and 2nd presidential elections that we haven’t counted so far for a total of 58 presidential elections.

Did you figure it out?

Solution: To answer this question, we multiply each of Hailey’s average scores

by the fractional part of her score represented by that category, then we add it all together.

So:

0.5 × 0.92 + 0.2 × 0.75 + 0.2 × 0.8 + 0.1 × 1 = 0.46 + 0.15 + 0.16 + 0.1 = 0.87 = 87%

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