Painting Lines for Football Date: 6/3/96 at 18:16:4 From: George
Dickenson Subject: Painting a field A football field is 120
yards long with 10 yards at each end zone, and 60 yards wide
with lines marked 5 yards apart except for the end zones. One
can of paint will stripe 300 linear feet. How many cans would it
take to stripe a football field? Date: 6/14/96 at 0:56:23 From:
Doctor Brian Subject: Re: math problems There are two sidelines
120 yards long. Or is it 140 - that is, does the 120 include the
end zones or not? There are then either 23 or 27 stripes for
yard lines, depending on whether the field is 120 or 140 yards
long. To determine the total length of the lines we either have:
(2*140) + (27*60) = 280 + 1620 = 1900 yards or (2*120) + (23*60)
= 240 + 1380 = 1620 yards. Since each can paints 100 yards,
divide into the total number of yards to get either 19 or 16.2
cans. -Doctor Brian, The Math Forum Check out our web site!
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