Question

The two diagrams show two different zoo enclosures for elephants. Sheila says that enclosure B gives the elephants more room. Do you agree?

Answer 1

Enclosure B does not give more room for the elephants. This is because Enclosure A gives more room to each elephant than Enclosure B does. The way to find this answer is to first find the area of each enclosure and then divide by the number of elephants in each enclosure to see how much room each elephant has. The math work is below:

Enclosure A:

200 * 500 = 100,000
100,000 / 4 = 25,000

Enclosure B:

1,100 * 180 = 198,000
198,000 / 9 = 22,000

25,000 > 22,000. So the enclosure with more room for the elephants is Enclosure A.