This week for activity 3, day 3 of week 2 of Summer Learning Journey, we had to solve a math problem. The problem was a 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?. We could use things to solve the problem on. The problem was hard to do.
A average adult can lift 25 kg and the average child can lift 15 kg. The squid is 500 kg. How many adults and children will it take to move the giant squid into its new room at Te Papa?
It takes 14 adults and 10 children to move the giant squid, because 14 x 25 = 350 and 10 x 15 = 150. 350 + 150 = 500.
Kia Ora Sakina,
ReplyDeleteIt’s great to see have figured out the answer to this colossal question! Do you think that you would want to be one of the people carrying this giant slimy squid? I don’t think I would want to, I imagine it would be quite hard to carry the squid from one side of Te Papa to the other side! Have you ever been to Te Papa museum ? I haven’t but I have been to Auckland museum and I really enjoyed visiting there!
Blog ya later!
Dani
Hi Sakina,
ReplyDeleteGreat job on completing this activity! I liked how you explained the question and how you got your answer. That squid must've been really hard to move, since based on the average adult only being able to lift 25kgs, 20 adults would be needed to move it anywhere unless they used machines. How much do you think a squid like that would cost to buy?