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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Pinkies Maths Group - Word Stories

There are 38 buses each seat has 2 pepole and there are 4 seats in each bus. How many pepole are there?

I did 4x2=8
and then 8x38
I rounded 38 to 40 so 8x40
Then I rounded 8 to 10 so 10x40=400-(2x40)=320-(2x8)=304 and thats the answer.

Written by Hannah Dais
Solved by Katelyn Blake

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