Activity 3, Week Two Day Three [10 points]
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Let’s imagine that the average adult can lift 25 kg and the average child can lift 15 kg.
How many adults and children will it take to move the giant squid into its new room
at Te Papa? [Note: There is more than one right answer to this question.]
On your blog, tell us how you will solve this maths problem.
You can write your answer in words, use a Sketchpad image or post a
video explaining how you would figure it out. Be sure to give us your final answer.
To figure out how many adults you will need to lift the 500 kg squid you can figure
it out by going 25 x 20= 500kg. You can also figure this out by going 500 divided
by 25 which is 20. So you need 20 adults to lift the 500kg squid.
To figure out how many children you need to lift the squid you can also go 500 divided
by 15 which equals 33.3333333. So 33.3333333 x 15 equals 500 so you would
need 33.3333333 children to lift a 500 kg squid.
Hi Jennae
ReplyDeleteI think that you have not understood what you are meant to do here. The question is how many adults and children would it take to lift 500 kgs.
So we know that 25 x 4 = 100 so times this by 4 = 400 = 16 adults
Then 15 x 6 = 90 so 400 + 90 = 490. = 6 kids
So to get 490 is 16 adults and 6 kids.
See if you can come up with another way.
I will look forward to you problem solving this another way. Can you get any closer?
Until next time
Allie :)