Chapter
8
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, a width of 25 meters, and a depth of 3 meters. liht
wants to build an Olympic-style pool with a similar shape, but with a length of 30 meters
.
1. Find the scale factor of the new pool.
2. Find the perimeter of the Olympic-size pool.
3. 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
4. Use both methods described in Exercise 3 to calculate the perimeter of your client's new
pool.
Method #1
Method #2
