Question

A rancher’s herd of 250 sheep grazes over a 40-acre pasture. He would like to find out how many sheep are grazing on each acre of the pasture at any given time, so he has some images of the pasture taken by the state department of agriculture’s aerial photography division. Here are three samples of the images.
Sample 1 4
Sample 2 1
Sample 3 9

If the sheep were equally "spread out" across all of the 40 acres, how many sheep would you expect to find on average on each acre?

Answer 1

Answer:

6

Step-by-step explanation:

So to find how much sheep there were on each acre, you divide.

250/40

You do this because you are splitting the 250 sheep into 40 acres.

250/40 = 6.25

There cannot be .25 of a sheep, and since it says on average the answer does not need to be exact. So you would round it off to 6 as your answer.