Sheet # 9
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Use drawings, words, or numbers to explain how you got your answer.
1) At my small school we have about 35 faucets. Only seven of them leak a bit. The water waste calculator tells me that that there would be about 2 liters a day that drip away from each faucet. How many liters of water would be wasted in a year?
2) Ken and his team washed 17,907 cars last year. If they used 175 liters of water to wash each car, how much water was used to wash all the cars?
3) 25,000 football fans spent $85 each to watch a football game. How much money was spent in all?
4) If the average daily food ration for a cow is 25 kg, how much would a cow eat in a year? If you had 120 dairy cows, how much would they eat in a year?
Sheet # 9
1) 5110 liters
2) 3,133,725
3) $2,125,000
4) 9125 kg per cow per year.
1,095,000 kg for 120 cows