Question

The Kraken is a mythical creature that was said to be known to consume ships whole. The great creature has long tentacles that are covered with suction cups. The kraken has a total of 8 tentacles and 1,000 suction cups total. The next number needed to open the treasure is the unit rate of suction cups per tentacle.

Answer 1

The kraken has 125 suction cups on each tentacle.

Explanation:

We know that the kraken has 8 tentacles, and a total of 1000 suction cups.

We can find the answer by dividing 1000 by 8 to find the unit rate of suction cups per tentacle.