The Harbor Bridge, opened in 1959, has served its purpose for some time now. However, with the addition of a cruise line coming soon, problems arise.
Many cruise ships are simply too large to fit below the bridge.
So, the city will either have to stick to the smaller ships, or build a bigger bridge. This activity looks at the feasibility of building a bigger boat. Students need to know how to figure slope of a line and how to write an equation of a line in point - slope form before they can do this. They also need to know how to covert percents into fractions. The Harbor Bridge is now about 139 feet from the water to the bottom of the bridge, but we want to look at making it 180 feet.