Question

An artist is carving chess pieces from a large piece of marble. After carving ppp chess pieces, there are SSS pounds of uncarved marble remaining. As the number of chess pieces carved increases, what happens to the weight of the remaining, uncarved marble?

Answer 1

The amount of marble will decrease as we make more chess pieces.

Explanation:

An artist is carving chess pieces from marble. He has already carved p chess pieces and has s pounds of marble remaining.

We have to find out what happens to the remaining marble as chess pieces are being carved.

We are making chess pieces from the marble that is remaining , hence the amount of marble will definitely decrease.

As we go on making chess pieces, the marble will finish at a point of time.