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Title: Bowling math 101
Post by: pearman on May 23, 2004, 06:06:12 AM
I was wondering if anyone knows or has an equation
on How many games does it take to have bowled 1 million pins
Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: tenpinspro on May 23, 2004, 09:11:14 PM
Do you mean thrown at 1 million pins?  If max pins in a game is 120 for a 300 game, then divide 1,000,000 by 120 = 8333.33 min games to have thrown at 1 mil pins...
Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: bigfoot on May 23, 2004, 09:11:55 PM
sure -- 1,000,000 divided by the average # of pins per game!
Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: Scolai on May 23, 2004, 09:12:14 PM
Depends on the average of the bowler.  If he/she averages 150, you're looking at 6666.67 games.

With a 200 average, you're looking at 5000 games.

How hard is this to figure out?
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Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: Photoc on May 23, 2004, 09:36:42 PM
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With a 200 average, you're looking at 5000 games.

How hard is this to figure out?


Harder than you think, because the MAXIMUM amount of actual pins someone can knock down in a game is 120.  So a 200 average means squat.  200 means about 75 pins actually knocked down.  so 1 million / 75 pins per game = 13333.33 games to hit an actual 1,000,000 pin count.   Not a score.

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Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: MI 2 AZ on May 24, 2004, 12:38:00 AM
Even if you spare each frame (strike or spare, the maximum number of pins knocked down in a frame is ten), you would have 100 pins plus whatever you got on the last ball.
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Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: hotwire13 on May 24, 2004, 12:45:16 AM
i think pearman means pins according to score...not the amount of pins we physically knock down.  it depends totally on your average...divide 1,000,000 by your average and figure it out...and then bowl about 80 years worth of leagues and maybe you can do it.
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Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: tenpinspro on May 24, 2004, 01:07:10 AM
Hey MI 2 AZ,

It's 10 pins per frame thru 9 frames and then a possible 30 more in the tenth frame.  That's how you get 120 max...but I think maybe he does mean the average thing...who knows?
Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: MI 2 AZ on May 24, 2004, 01:52:24 AM
tenpinspro, right, but I was referring to the statement of a 200 average bowler only getting about 75 pins per game.   Even if you opened each frame, you would end up with (hopefully) about 80 pins per game.  So if a 200 average bowler just marked each frame, he would get at least 100+ per game.
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Title: Re: Bowling math 101
Post by: tenpinspro on May 24, 2004, 01:58:06 AM
Oops, sorry MI.  I was looking at that too, trying to figure out how many different ways you could shoot 200 with the actual lowest pin count...it would still seem like more then 75 though...