how many songs does your favorite radio station play each year?
Published on Mar 24, 2016
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how many songs does your favorite radio station play each year?
Kyle Prichard, hannah doss, jacob taylor
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Assumptions
- The station plays for 24 hrs.
- Ads are played in between songs.
- Every song and ad is the same length
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Need to know
- How long are the ads and songs (average)
- How many songs and ads play during the day?
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Pre-research
- Guess of how long a song was : 3 min.
- Guess of how long an ad was : 30 sec.
- Guess-How many songs per hour?: 18.
- how many adds per hour- 6 min.
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Pre-Calculation
- 3 min x 18 songs= 54 min of songs (rounded)
- 6min. of ads
- 18 songs hour x 24 hours x 365 days = 157,680 songs a year
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Predictions
- The lower estimate is 157,680 songs
- The higher estimate is 166,440 songs due to one extra song/hr
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Research/calculation
- 96.7 offers 12 songs per hour. (average)
- 12 songs x 24 hours = 288 songs a day. 288 x 365= 105,120 songs per year
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