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chicken and a half?
hi~
my son and i disagree with his teacher's answer to the following problem.
please tell us what you think it is and why..
thanks!
For your next vacation, your family has signed up for a space cruise with a theme of Mathematics in the Far Reaches of the Galaxy. The first stop of your cruise rocket is the planet Sesquipedalia, where every Sesquipedalien has one and a half fingers per hand. Because of this, they tend to count by one-and-a-halfs instead of by ones or fives or tens, like we Earthlings do.
When you visit a Sesquipedalian chicken farm producing Sesquipedalian eggs, they tell you that a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half. This is confusing to you as an Earthling, so you decide to figure out how many eggs the whole farm produces in a month. If the farm has 30 chickens and a Sesquipedalian month has 30 days, what do you get?
P.S. – Please provide your answer in Earth numbers
hi~
my son and i disagree with his teacher's answer to the following problem.
please tell us what you think it is and why..
thanks!
For your next vacation, your family has signed up for a space cruise with a theme of Mathematics in the Far Reaches of the Galaxy. The first stop of your cruise rocket is the planet Sesquipedalia, where every Sesquipedalien has one and a half fingers per hand. Because of this, they tend to count by one-and-a-halfs instead of by ones or fives or tens, like we Earthlings do.
When you visit a Sesquipedalian chicken farm producing Sesquipedalian eggs, they tell you that a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half. This is confusing to you as an Earthling, so you decide to figure out how many eggs the whole farm produces in a month. If the farm has 30 chickens and a Sesquipedalian month has 30 days, what do you get?
P.S. – Please provide your answer in Earth numbers