On Wednesday we estimated the speed of the bus. To calculate the speed of the bus we would need to distance divided by the amount of time taken. An estimation is rough calculation . It is meant to be near the calculation but not exact. Assumption and data play a huge role in estimation and calculation. Data is facts and statistics collected for reference or analysis. Data is needed in order to make a calculation. In order to calculate the true average speed of the bus we would have needed to have recorded the amount of travel time . We would also need to find the exact distance we traveled. These two factors would be the data we use to calculate the true distance. To estimate that speed of the bus we would have had to make an educated guess on the amount of time we were going to be traveling for. That educated guess would be an assumption. We would be making an assumption of how long it would take the bus to travel from where we started, all the way around and back. In the discussion I brought up a question regarding the amount of time the bus was traveling. I assumed that what they wanted with the average bus speed was the speed the bus was traveling at most often. In that case to calculate the average speed would have to pause the travel time every time the bus comes to a a stop because then its not traveling.
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