Question

Yall please help fast Veronica went on three hikes. On each hike, she saw the following numbers of animals:

Hike Length of hike
(
km
)
(km)left parenthesis, start text, k, m, end text, right parenthesis Number of animals seen
Rivers Edge
3
33
8
88
Wooded Marsh
8
88
24
2424
Canyon Creek
15
1515
35
3535
Veronica tried to order the hikes from least to greatest by the number of animals seen per kilometer, but she made a mistake. Here's her work:

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Answer 1

Veronica's attempt at ordering the hikes from least to greatest by the number of animals seen per kilometer is not correct.

To order the hikes by the number of animals seen per kilometer, we need to calculate the number of animals seen per kilometer for each hike. We can do this by dividing the number of animals seen by the length of the hike in kilometers.

Using this method, we can calculate the number of animals seen per kilometer for each hike as follows:

Rivers Edge: 8/3 = 2.67 animals/km

Wooded Marsh: 24/8 = 3 animals/km

Canyon Creek: 35/15 = 2.33 animals/km

Based on these calculations, the correct order of the hikes from least to greatest by the number of animals seen per kilometer is Rivers Edge, Canyon Creek, Wooded Marsh.

Veronica's mistake appears to be that she simply ordered the number of animals seen in each hike from least to greatest, rather than calculating the number of animals seen per kilometer.