This whole project was based on a story writen by Edgar Allan Poe. The whole story was a math problem that needed to be answered. There was a man tied down by bandages and a 30 ft pendulum was swinging down to hit him. The question asked if rats could eat away at the bandages in 1 minute and the pendulum has 12 swings left till it cuts him in half would he have enough time to escape? As a class we did many different assinments that lead up to answering this question. We experimented with different pendulums, gathered data, and worked with standard devision. At the begginning of this project I didn't understand it and i didn't have any ideas on how to solve it. After doing different worksheets it helped me understand how to solve the problem and try to find an answer. I saw that the teacher was making us di all of these different task to help the us understnad the problem better. It alos helped me see what different varibles were important to use to find a solution for the problem.