Your pool service company has been 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 you 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. Your client 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 perimter of your client's new pool.

Method #1

Method #2

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