Question

12. An adult elephant eats about 300 pounds of food each day. Write an

expression to represent the number of pounds of food a herd of
12 elephants eats in 5

Answer 1

Answer. 18,000 lbs of food.
Explanation. First, let’s find how much food 12 elephants eat in ONE day. Since we already know in one day, one elephant eats 300 lbs, multiply 300 (lbs of food) by 12 (elephants). We now know that in one day, 12 elephants eat 3,600 lbs of food. To find how much they eat in 5 days, simply multiply 3,600 by 5. In 5 days, 12 elephants eat 18,000 lbs of food.