Question

By 6 months, cubs can eat their adult diet of bamboo and fiber biscuits. An adult red panda might eat 1,100 grams of food per day made up of 23% biscuits, 73% bamboo, and the rest in fruit. Write and evaluate an expression to calculate how many grams of fruit an adult red panda eats in 3 weeks?

Answer 1

Explanation:

First we need to find the amount of the diet that is fruit. (It is what is not biscuits or bamboo.) The quantity is given per day, so we need to multiply that by the number of days in 3 weeks.

  (1 - 23% -73%)·(1100 g/day)·(7 day/week)·(3 week) = (44 g/day)·(21 day)

  = 924 g . . . . of fruit