Field Hockey Final

In a field hockey tournament during the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the average number of goals scored by the American team was 4.25

How can this be possible when a goal in field hockey is always worth 1? How did our average become a decimal when we were only using whole numbers? Explain.

Uneven Bars=Uneven Scores

The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze metal winner's score was a 14.975.

What was the Gold metal winners score?

By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist?

If we rounded up the scores could a winner be determined, or is the decimal necessary to distinguish Gold from Silver?

Almost There!

In the men's ski jumping event Simon Ammann of Switzerland won the large hill event in the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver 2010. He is determined to take over the world record held by Bjorn Einer Romoren of Norway. If the world record is 239 meters and Ammann has only reached 144 meters, how much farther must he sore to beat the record by at least .1 meter?