It is the only specimen of its kind in the entire world! This squid weighs approximately 500 kg. In 2018, a team at Te Papa decided to move the giant squid from one area of the museum to another.
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.]
25 x 4 = 100 100 + 75 = 175 / 175 x 2 = 350
15 x 5 75 10x 15=children 8x 25=adults
25 x 6 = 150
350 + 150 = 500
10 adults and 5 chilren
Hellur Justice,
ReplyDeleteGreat Job on completing day three's task! I found this task quite challenging because I'm not good at maths but looking at your work it looks very easy for you! I like your work because it's very clear and I can understand how you solved it very well. Keep up the great work Justice :)
Cheers,
Amelia
Hi Justice,
ReplyDeleteIt's Leslie here, a member of the Summer Learning Journey team reading your blog from my wintry home in Canada.
I'm not just sure about your process of deciding how many adults and children would be needed to lift a gigantic squid. If there were just 10 adults they would be able to life 10 X 25 kg/person which equals 250 kg. Five children would be able to lift 5 X 15 kg/person and that equals 75 kg. Adding the adults and children together would come to 250 + 75 = 325 kg. The squid weighs 500 kg, so this isn't quite enough people.
Perhaps you could try this again and see if you can figure it out another way. What would happen if you chose to just have adults life the squid. I would approach that by dividing the weight of the squid, 500 kg, by the the weight each person could life, 25 kg., and seeing what the answer is to that....
Just a start....
I hope you're having a good start to your new term at school and that you've enjoyed all the activities you did while on the Summer Learning Journey.
Cheers,
Leslie