Question

Female giraffes reach a height of 4.3 meters, and males reach a height of 5.5 meters. Kendra created a bar diagram and wrote an equation to find the difference in the heights. bar diagram d - 5.5 = 4.3 Write about the errors made by Kendra.

Answer 1

It should be 5.5 - d not 5.5 first

Answer 2

The numbers are in the wrong places in the diagram. 5.5m should be in the top bar diagram and 4.3 in the bottom. One equation could be 4.3 + d = 5.5.