Question

a silk worm wind ts cocoon out of one long slik fiber. to make silk thread, 3 to 10 of these silk fibers are unwound from their cocoons and combined into a single thread with a typical length of 300 yards. Explain why you cannot write and equation to find the exact total length of the silk fibers used in a 300-yard silk thread

Answer 1

since the number ranges between 3 and 10, an equation can't be made because the number is always unknown or can be different every time