Question

A Toy donation center is collecting toys for Christmas celebration. They calculated the collected toys and found the number to be 5^2. To save money, they are distributing toys in cars, and one car can only carry 5^2 toys at a time. How many trips of cars are needed to be able to distribute all the toys?

a) 5 trips
b) 10 trips
c) 25 trips
d) 1 trip

Answer 1

To find out how many trips are needed to distribute all the toys, we divide the total number of toys by the number of toys a car can carry in one trip. Therefore, only 1 trip is needed to distribute all the toys. The correct answer is d) 1 trip.

Step-by-step explanation:

The number of toys collected is 5², which is equal to 25 toys. The distribution constraint is that one car can carry 5² toys at a time. To find out how many trips are needed to distribute all the toys, we divide the total number of toys by the number of toys a car can carry in one trip.

Number of trips =
`\frac{\text{Total number of toys}}{\text{Toys per car}}`

Number of trips =
`(25)/(5^2)`

=
`(25)/(25)`

= 1

Therefore, only 1 trip is needed to distribute all the toys. The correct answer is:

d) 1 trip