Question

a monkey starts climbing up a tree 40ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 4 ft and slips back 3 ft. How much time would it take the monkey to reach the top ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

11 A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft tall each hour it hops 3ft and slips back 2ft How much time would it take the monkey to reach the top

reaching the top.. so total 17 + 1 = 18 hrs.. are you satisfied with the ans... Each hour it goes up 3 feet and slips back two feet. by 18hrs it climbs 20 feets

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Answer 2

A total of 41 hours is needed by the monkey to reach the top.

Given,

This monkey has to climb 40 ft.

Each hour, it hops 4 ft and slips back 3 ft.

To Find,

The total time would it take the monkey to reach the top.

Solution,

Each hour it goes up 3 feet and slips back two feet.

So it climbs only ( 3 feet - 2 feet = 1 foot) one foot in one hour.

So in 40 hours, it climbs  40 feet .

Finally, in the next hour, it climbs 1 foot. reaching the top.. so total 40 + 1 = 41 hrs.

Hence, A total of 41 hours is needed by the monkey to reach the top,