Volume 4, Edition 3 | 2011-12 Academic School Year SUBSCRIPTION: 22 of 38 | The Daughtry Times Identification No. 188 2012 – By The Numbers Friday, February 3, 2012| Tim Newcomb, TIME Magazine Pretty soon, if we aren’t careful, will turn into this country’s biggest holiday. If it isn’t already, that is. We’ve all known for years now that the day isn’t so much about football (this year’s game is the vs. the , in case you forgot to check) as it is about a mountain of other interests, including plenty of consumerism, chicken wings, commercials, crunchy snacky goodness and, apparently, cash.

Let’s take a look at the Super Bowl utilizing the very things that determines the winner: numbers: 46: Don’t let those pesky Roman numerals trick you. This is Super Bowl 46.1.25 billion: Of course, with that many chicken wings expected to get consumed on Sunday, it may serve a napkin advertiser well to get some ad time. 68,000: Seats inside Lucas Oil Stadium in , the home of the NFL’s Colts and host of the Super Bowl. Of those tickets, 17.5% were given to each team to sell to their fans. $4,000: The average price that Super Bowl tickets are hovering around, if you missed out on the $800 to $1,200 face value price in the initial offering. 19: Hours of live Super Bowl coverage you can subject yourself to, if you dare. $25,000: Cost of the Trophy, given to the Super Bowl winners, made by Tiffany & Co. of New York.13,000: Hotel rooms in Indianapolis. All are booked for the weekend and some at a 1,700% higher price than the conventional fee. 2,000: Tuesday’s media day was a standing-room-only event, with 2,000 media credentials granted and another 7,000 tickets sold to fans wanting to watch the circus.150: Super Bowl rings the NFL pays for, at $5,000 each, for the winning team to hand out to players and staff. $3.5 million to $4 million: That average price tag for a 30-second Super Bowl commercial time slot during NBC’s telecast of the game didn’t dissuade potential advertisers, since the majority of the slots have been sold out since November. But can they wow audiences and generate lasting buzz? That’s the $3.5 million bet. 87 percent: Increase in the price of a 30-second commercial slot in the last 40 years.

111 million: Anticipated television viewers tuning in for the game, meaning that advertisers don’t have any qualms about dropping $3.5 million on the chance to get their product/service in front of that many eyes for 30 seconds. And with two teams from two large markets, don’t expect a drop in total viewers this year. 48: Minutes of commercials during last year’s Super Bowl on FOX. You can expect something similar this year. 1: Times Indianapolis has hosted the Super Bowl. Yeah, the Midwest city will make its first Super Bowl impression on Sunday. Will it fare better than last year’s iced-in, ticket-fiasco-marred Dallas Super Bowl? 17-14: Winning score for the Giants when they defeated the then-unbeaten Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl in Phoenix. $11 billion: Amount consumers are expected to spend on the Super Bowl each year. 3: Songs Madonna is expected to perform during her set at halftime of the game.

1. In appropriate paragraph form, compare and contrast the pros and cons synonymous with Americans’ willingness to splurge financially on activities affiliated with the Super Bowl. Thoroughly explain your reasoning and provide specific artifacts and evidence limited solely to passage above to support your response. Create and illustrate a Venn Diagram to effectively explore relationships and patterns and to make arguments about relationships between sets. (LA.910.3.2.2; LA.910.1.6.2; MA.912.D.7.2; MA.912.A.10.1)

2. Deductive reasoning is the process of reasoning logically from given facts to a conclusion. Justify each step in simplifying the following equation with reasons such as properties, definitions, rules, etc.: a) the sum of a 1 minute 45-second commercial and four Super Bowl tickets at the mean value and the product of one, increased by zero, and the difference of its additive inverse. (MA.912.A.10.1; MA.912.A.3.2; MA.912.A.2.13)

3. Given the data provided in the passage above, write three unique statements, which describe relationships and provide examples of the following: positive correlation, negative correlation, or no correlation. Select one of your responses; organize the information in a table and a scatter plot. Describe the trend and sketch a trend line to approximate the data. (MA.912.A.10.1; MA.912.A.2.13)

4. A conjecture is an unproven statement that is based merely on observations. You can show that a conjecture is false, however, by simply identifying one counterexample. Make and test a conjecture based solely upon numbers indentified in the passage above. Identify a counterexample. Explain your reasoning. Write a conditional statement or a logical statement, which contains a hypothesis and conclusion in if-then form, the converse, the inverse, and the contrapositive. Decide whether each statement is true or false. (MA.912.D.6.2; MA.912.G.8.2; MA.912.G.8.4)

5. Using contextual clues only, define the following italicized words: qualms, consumerism, dissuade and conventional as obtained from the passage above. Additionally, use each word in a complete sentence to demonstrate further comprehension. (LA.910.1.6.3; LA.910.1.6.1)

6. SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY WORD-OF-THE-WEEK Create a concluding paragraph aligned with the passage above using the following italicized word: nefarious (adj.) heinously villainous (LA.910.1.6.1; LA.910.1.6.5) Next Generation Sunshine State Standards adapted from floridastandards.org. Standards specifically addressed in this edition are strategically aligned with state standards and annotated adjacent to the respective inquiry.

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