Question

Anna is preparing 30 days of dessert for her pet

beetle. She starts by mixing 3.67 grams of pureed
ants with a 1.43-gram blueberry. She then divides
the mixture into 30 equal parts, one for each day.
The International Federation of Beetle Keepers
recommends that a beetle should have 0.15 grams of
such a dessert each day. Over the course of a
seven-day week, how many more grams of dessert will
Anna's beetle have eaten than the recommended
amount?

Please answer this word problem idk the answer​

Answer 1

Anna's beetle will have eaten 1.04 grams more of dessert than the recommended amount over a seven-day week.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many more grams of dessert Anna's beetle will have eaten than the recommended amount over a seven-day week, we need to calculate the total grams of dessert consumed and then subtract the recommended amount.

1. First, we need to calculate the total grams of dessert consumed per day. Anna mixes 3.67 grams of pureed ants with a 1.43-gram blueberry, giving a total of 5.1 grams.
2. Next, we divide the mixture into 30 equal parts, one for each day. So, each day the beetle consumes 5.1 grams / 30 = 0.17 grams of dessert.
3. Lastly, we need to calculate the total grams of dessert consumed over a seven-day week. The beetle consumes 0.17 grams * 7 = 1.19 grams of dessert in a week.

To find the difference between the total grams of dessert consumed and the recommended amount, we subtract the recommended amount of 0.15 grams per day from the total grams consumed over a week: 1.19 grams - 0.15 grams = 1.04 grams.

Therefore, Anna's beetle will have eaten 1.04 grams more of dessert than the recommended amount over a seven-day week.