Question

An arctic woolly-bear caterpillar lives for 7 years and spends 90% of its life frozen. How many days of its life is the arctic woolly-bear frozen? Round to the nearest whole day.

Answer 1

The Arctic woolly-bear caterpillar lives for 2555 days, and 90% of this time is spent frozen, which totals approximately 2300 days.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Arctic woolly-bear caterpillar lives for 7 years, and if it spends 90% of its life frozen, we need to calculate the total amount of time it spends in that state.

First, let's convert the caterpillar's lifespan into days:

There are 365 days in a year (ignoring leap years for simplicity).

So, 7 years is 7 x 365 days, which equals 2555 days.

Next, we find 90% of the caterpillar's total lifespan:

90% of 2555 days is (90/100) x 2555 = 2299.5 days.

Since we are asked to round to the nearest whole day, the Arctic woolly-bear caterpillar spends approximately 2300 days of its life frozen.

Answer 2

2,300 days are without activities

Step-by-step explanation:

We start by calculating the number of days in 7 years

Mathematically, that would be 7 * 2,555

From the question, 90% of days are without activities

The number of days without activities will be;

90/100 * 2,555 = 2,299.5 which is approximately 2,300 days