Friday 16 August 2013

MATHS WEEK PROBLEM 5



Day 5: Logan is in charge of feeding the animals at a small zoo. He places food in 22 enclosures holding one animal. While doing this, Logan counts a total of 64 animal legs. Calculate how many two and four legged animals there are.


2 legged:

4 legged:


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6 comments:

  1. Leah17 August 2013 at 15:50

    This is my thinking about this.
    2 legged:32

    4 legged:21

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  2. Azi17 August 2013 at 18:10

    There at least has to be 2 legs in each enclosure.
    22 enclosures x 2 legs =44 legs
    64 legs - 44 legs = 20 legs that need to go in cages
    20/2=10 cages that can have four legs
    22-10 = 12 cages that have two legs
    therefore there are 10 animals that have 4 legs and 12 animals that have 2 legs

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  3. Sophie18 August 2013 at 14:00

    32 2 legged animals
    16 4 legged animals

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  4. S18 August 2013 at 19:49

    12 2 legged animals and 10 4 legged animals.

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  5. Riley19 August 2013 at 06:46

    10 4 legged and 12 2 legged animals

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  6. Emma Humphrey19 August 2013 at 07:32

    There are lots of answers for this problem here are two possible answers
    2 legged: 12
    4 legged :10

    2 legged :2
    4 legged :15

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