Question

1. Assume that the grasshopper in the food pyramid above must eat half its body weight in grass each day. If an average-size grasshopper weighs 2 grams, and 1 blade of grass weighs 0.1grams (one tenth of a gram), how many blades of grass does the grasshopper need to eat each day?

Answer 1

Answer:

answer is 10 blades of grass

Explanation:

as the grasshopper weights 2 grams and it's supposed to eat food which is equal to half of its weight (1 gram),

as one blade of grass is 0.1 gram which is one tenth of a gram let's multiply 1 x 10, so the answer is 10,

thus the grasshopper needs to eat 10 blades of grass

Answer 2

The Grasshopper Should Eat 10 Grass Blades Each Day.

GIVEN

Amount of food to be consumed = 1/2 weight of grasshopper.

weight of Grasshopper = 2 grams

Weight of 1 blade of grass = 0.1 grams.

TO FIND

The Number of blades of grass that should be eaten by a grasshopper in a day.

SOLUTION

We can simply solve the above problem as follows-

It is given,

Amount of food to be consumed = 1/2 of the weight of a grasshopper

=

$\frac{1}{2} \times 2 = 1gram$

So, 1 gram of grass should be eaten by the grasshopper each day.

We know that,

Weight of 1 grass blade = 0.1 gram

Number of glass blades that equals 1 gram = 1/0.1 = 10

Hence, The grasshopper should eat 10 grass blades each day.

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