How many times will John McCain blink in his lifetime

Name ______________Seth__Davidson______________

     During the 08' election I noticed that the republican presidential candidate, John McCain blinked much more than anyone else. While I think that he was a pitiful candidate, I was intrigued  by his excess blinking. I wondered how many times he will blink In his lifetime.

How many blinks per minute does John McCain do?
How long is the average human lifetime?
what percent of our lives is spent sleeping?
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/humans-live-forever.htm
Life expancy for males is 75 years
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih3/sleep/guide/info-sleep.htm
We sleep about 1/3 of our lives
60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year
2/3 of a day is 16 hours so you spend 16 hours awake a day, thus, a day will be known as 16 hours own this problem


I found that he does about 48 blinks per second
I did this by watching 1 minute of an interview, and I counted how many times he blinked 3 times, and averaged those nmbers.

blink  X  min.    X     Hours   X     Days   X 75 years= L
Min.   X   Hour  X     Day      X     Year    X  75 years


L X   2/3= B
B= blinks in his lifetime


5.  Messy Math:  Plug in the numbers you need from the Helpful Hints or the assumptions you are making into your formula.  One of your calculations must be performed with Scientific Notation.  Check that your units cancel so you end with the correct final unit.




48blinks   X   60min.   X  24hours    X  365days.  X. 75= 1892160000
1min.       X   1hour     X  1day         X   1year    

1892160000 X 2/3  =
John McCain will blink around 1261427385.6 times in his lifetime. A normal person only blinks around 4.2048X 10^4
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