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Word Problems

1. If it takes you 3 min. to walk one acre, then how long would it take you to walk across the Arlington Cemetery if it is 200 acres long?  
   (answer in hours and minuets)

2. If it rains 30% of the year at the Arlington Cemetery than what is the probability of you visiting the cemetery for a funeral on a day that it rains?

3. If there are 260,000 graves in the Arlington Cemetery and there are 20 burials a day if the pattern continues how many people would be in the cemetery after (a) 30 days if you started with 0 in it?  (b) 50? 

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Scavenger  Hunt

Go to http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/

1. How many people visit the cemetery annually?

Click on Visitors Information

2. About how many graveside services are conducted each week?

3. On how many acres does the Arlington Mansion reside?

Go to http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/ceremonies/sentineltraining.html and read about the Tome of the Unknown Soldier.

4. What happens if the candidate is married? 

Go to Historical Information

5. What two Presidents are buried at Arlington Cemetery?

6. What explorers were buried at the cemetery? 

Click on the word Astronauts under Explorers Buried at the Arlington National Cemetery

7.  In what section and grid were the seven explorers of the Spaceship Challenger memorialized?

Answers to Scavenger  Hunt

1. There is more than 500 acres of land at the Arlington Cemetery.

2. Only two president's remains are in the cemetery.

3. No more than 1 person is buried at Arlington Cemetery each day.

4. The Tome of the Unknown Soldier is guarded 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.

5. There are people buried in the cemetery from more than two wars.

6. More than 4 million people visit the cemetery each year.

     The Arlington National Cemetery is located in Arlington Virginia.  There have been over four million visitors to the Arlington Cemetery as of today.   It is 200 acres long and has 260,000 people buried there.  This is also the resting-place for some of our country's presidents like William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy.  Kennedy's wife, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as well as Robert Kennedy are buried here. What makes Kennedy's grave unique is the eternal flame, which burns uninterrupted.  

     There are veterans buried at Arlington from the American Revolution through the Persian War.  In section 27, there are more than 3,800 former slaves.  The Department of the Army manages the cemetery. Funerals average about 20 a day.  The cemetery helps family members remember loved ones that have died trying to help our country.   Men and women who have died in operation Iraqi freedom, and the tragedy of the Columbia, which crashed in Houston, Texas on February 4, 2003, are also buried there.  At the following web site you can view the Pentagon in the background from Arlington Cemetery.  It displays the Pentagon still smoldering from the 9-11 attack. 

 www.arlingtoncemetery.net

     Arlington is the only cemetery of more than 100 national cemeteries that is administered by the Army.  The Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers is also found at the Cemetery.  This is especially an attraction to visitors.  It is constructed of white marble inscribed with Greek figures representing peace, victory, and valor.  There are soldiers represented from WWI, WWII, Korea, and the Vietnam War. There is a continual guard on watch at the sarcophagus 24 hrs. a day, 365 days a year which changes in shifts no matter the weather,.  From Oct. 1^st to March 31^st the guard is changed every hour on the hour.  From April 1^st to September 30^th the guard is changed every half hour and creates more chances for onlookers to view the changing.  From April 1^st to September 30^th the closing time changes from 5 to 7 p.m. 

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Answer to Math Word Problem.

1. a) Min. 600    b) Hours: 10

2. 110/365 = 22/73

3. a) 600,  b) 1000

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 4 million

2. 100

3. 200

4. The spouse was asked to meat with the commander.

5. John F. Kennedy & William Taft

6. Astronauts, Prominent Explorers, Robert Edwin Peary, Matthew Alexander Henson

7. Section 46, Grid O-24 near Amphitheater

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1. Fiction 200 acres

2. Fact

3. Fiction 20 people

4. Fact

5. Fact

6. Fact

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Citation

"Arlington National Cemetery." 9 Jan. 2004. <http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org  >.

"Arlington National Cemetery." 23 Feb 2003. 16 Dec 2003. <http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net >.