Question

athena has 17 1/8 pounds of clay. She needs 3 5/8 pounds of clay to make a rabbit sculpture. if she uses all of the clay she has to make 3 rabbit sculptures and 4 bird sculptures, how many pounds of clay does she need to make each bird sculpture?

Answer 1

Athena used 3 5/8 pounds of clay to make each rabbit sculpture, and she made 3 rabbit sculptures and 4 bird sculptures in total. So, the amount of clay she used for the rabbit sculptures was:

3 rabbit sculptures x 3 5/8 pounds of clay per rabbit sculpture = 10 7/8 pounds of clay

To find out how much clay she used for the bird sculptures, we can subtract the amount of clay used for the rabbit sculptures from the total amount of clay Athena has:

17 1/8 pounds of clay - 10 7/8 pounds of clay = 6 4/8 pounds of clay

Simplifying the above expression, we get:

17 1/8 pounds of clay - 10 7/8 pounds of clay = 6 1/2 pounds of clay

Therefore, Athena used a total of 6 1/2 pounds of clay to make the 4 bird sculptures. To find out how much clay she used for each bird sculpture, we can divide this total amount by the number of bird sculptures:

6 1/2 pounds of clay ÷ 4 bird sculptures = 1 5/8 pounds of clay per bird sculpture

So, Athena used 1 5/8 pounds of clay to make each bird sculpture.