Question

at a zoo 3 pandas eat a total of 181 1/2 pounds of bamboo shoots each day. The male panda eats 3 times as much as the baby. the female eats two times as much as the baby how many pounds of bamboo dose the female panda eat?

Answer 1

Answer:

Female panda eats 60,50 pounds

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to solve thsi problem we have to create an equation, we have to be able to represent each value in the equation and since we dont have any more information, we can´t make them different variables, the good thing is that they are all expressed in terms of how much does the baby panda eats, so baby panda amount of food will be expressed by X, and since female panda is twice that it would be 2x, since male panda is three times that it would be 3x, and the total between the three of them is 181 1/2, so the sum of all of them is that, we put that into an equation:

3x+2x+x=181 1/2

6x=181 1/2

x=(181 1/2)/6

x=30,25

Since the problem asks for how much does female panda eats, we calculate that with 2x, 2(30,25)= 60,5 pounds.

So the female panda eats 60,5 pounds of bamboo.

Answer 2

Male panda 3 parts Female panda 2 parts Baby panda 1 part 3+2+1=6 parts 181.5÷6= 30.25 pound each part Female panda eats 30.25 x 2=60.5 pounds