The football coach makes his players run up and down the bleachers 40 times. Each time they run up and down 32 stairs one way. If each stair burns 2 calories, how many calories does each player burn during this exercise?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
First find the number of stairs the players climb up and down each time: 32 stairs * 2 = 64 stairs. Then multiply the number of stairs per run by the number of runs to find the total number of stairs the players climb: 64 stairs / run * 40 runs = 2560 stairs. Then multiply the number of stairs by the number of calories each stair burns: 2560 stairs * 2 calories / stair = 5120 calories.
Thus, the answer is 5120.