Grades 3-4 Video Solutions 2025-2025_3-4

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Question 13. In the petting zoo, Renée feeds six sheep. She gives them a total of 210 grams  of dry food for lunch. She gives the smallest sheep twice as much food as she gives to each of the others. How much does the smallest sheep get?  To start off this problem, we know that we have six total sheep. We know that five of them get  the same amount of food, and the last sheep gets twice as much. So it gets twice the portion of each one, so we can count that as two. When we take this, we get a total of seven.  All we have to do to solve this question is take 210 grams and divide it by seven portions.  Then we will know how much each of the big sheep gets, and then that answer will be times two for  the little sheep, because it eats twice as much food. When we do 210 divided by seven, we get our solution of 30. Each of the big sheep eats 30 grams, and then the little sheep  eats twice as much, so 60 grams. Answer B.

Video Summary

In the problem, Renée feeds six sheep a total of 210 grams of food. Five sheep receive the same amount, and the smallest sheep gets twice as much as each of the others. The solution involves dividing the total food into seven equal portions (five for the regular sheep and two portions for the smallest sheep). Dividing 210 grams by seven gives each regular sheep 30 grams. Consequently, the smallest sheep, receiving twice that amount, gets 60 grams of food. The solution concludes that the smallest sheep receives 60 grams, corresponding to answer B.

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Renée

sheep

food distribution

equal portions

smallest sheep