Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Who wants to be a millionaire? – Student Worksheet A

Every year, more and more money in being won by people of all ages playing competitive video games either online or at huge LANs (Local Area networks). World Cyber games plan to give out $500,000, the Cyberathlete Professional League will pay out $1,000,000 in prizes in 2005 and quakecon 2005, handed out $300,000 in cash prize money at a single event. Many skills are needed to become a professional cyber athlete and one of those is lightning fast reflexes. Have you got what it takes?

1. Make a prediction of what your reaction time will be: ______ms.

2. Your teacher will instruct you how to measure reaction times. Fill in the reaction times in the table.

3. Find each person’s median reaction time, the middle value of their three reaction times.

R R R R R R e e e e e e a a a a a Median a Median c c c c c c t t t t t t

Name i i i reaction Name i i i reaction o o o o o o

n n n time (ms) n n n time (ms)

2 3 2 3 1 1

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