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Friday 5 May 2017

LJ - Reflecting On Yesterday's Maths

Yesterday on thursday , we went through maths and I found it hard along with my Group - Math Survivors . We spent quite a while trying to figure it out . We went with a couple of strategies doing with 3 , 6 or 9 . We read the sheet and it said - How many people can sit at the smallest table . But we never knew what answer we would go with . Because Surprise , Surprise , The amount of people that could fit in the ENTIRE restaurant , Were 24 . We tried many attempts but , when Miss Komor came to help us , It suddenly hit me ,


( Not literally )  that it was supposed to go in Four’s instead of Three’s , Sixes , Or Ninth's . I managed to get the right answer . Four were supposed to sit at the smallest table . Then at the middle sized table , 8 were supposed to sit there , And at the biggest table , Twelve were supposed to sit there  . A little back and forth happened because , they weren’t sure . I decided to explain it - 8+4+12 = 24 . Why ? - 8+4=12 +12 = 24 .


Tevita’s answer was a little different . So was everyone else’s . We finally went with 24 because after all , that was the answer . Gary’s Group and my group put up their hands because both of us got it too. And Monita’s group got it before my group did .
After all this time we got it right .


The Question  Was - The Pizza place has three tables . The biggest one seats three times as many people as the smallest one. The middle sized table seats twice as many people as the smallest one . On Tuesday Night , Three-quarters of the seats were taken . Then twelve more people arrived . Unfortunately there were only enough seats for half of them .


How many people can sit at the smallest table.? You Already know the answer’s 24 . Can you come up with any problem that reaches this number ?

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