Question

at a zoo, 3 pandas eat a total of 181 1/2 pounds of bamboo shoots each day. The male panda eats 3 times as much as the baby. The female eats twice as much as the baby. How many pounds of bamboo shoots does the female panda eat? Steps

Answer 1

The female panda eats 60,5 pounds of bamboo shoots.

Step by step Explanation|

Ok so in order to solve this problem we would have to create a equation. We have to be able to represent each value in the equation. And since we don’t have anymore information we can’t make them different variables, the good thing is that they are all expressed in terms of how much does the baby panda eats. So baby panda amount of food will be expressed by:
x,
and since the female panda is twice that it would be:
2x,
And since the male panda is three times that it would be:
3x,
And the totals between the 3 of them is:
181/ and 1/2,

So the sum of all of them is...
(We put it into an equation so it would look like this):
3x + 2x + x = 181 1/2
6x = 181 1/2
X = (181 1/2)/6
X = 30/25

Now since the problems asks for how much does the female panda eats, we will calculate in our heads of course that:
2x,2(30,25) = 60,5 pounds..

So the female panda eats 60,5 pounds of bamboo.