Monday, October 28, 2013

How much bamboo to pandas eat in a month?

1.  Background Story:
How much bamboo do all the pandas eat in a month? I choosed this Fermi question because its easy to search up and is something I been wanting to know for a wile.

2.  Ask Yourself This:
Where do the pandas mostly live? What is there population (How many are they)? And how much bamboo do adult pandas eat in a day so I can find out approximately what they eat in a month.

3.  Helpful Hints:
a.  List the information you know or found while researching the questions listed in

#2:
 Pandas mostly live in central China in the forest or around farms. There's about 1600 pandas left in the wild. Adult pandas eat 500 bamboo stems a day.


b.
The 1600 pandas was a estimation because no one is going to count all the pandas in China. But they might be more or less


4.  Construct a Formula:
I can take the information I got from finding out how much bamboo pandas eat in a day and times that by 30 because there's 30 days in a month.


5.  Messy Math:
500bamboo stems per day*30days in a month=15,000 number of shots
15,000numbers of shots*1600pandas=24,000,000

1.) 1.5000
2.)4 places
3.)1.5
4.)1.5*10^4 number of shots

1.)1.600
2.)3 places
3.)1.6
4.)1.6*10^3 pandas

1.)1.5*1.6=2.4
2.)4+3=7
3.)2.4*10^7 number of shouts for all the pandas in China

6.  Answer:
2.4*10^7 number of shouts for all the pandas in China
2.4*10^7 is all the people who visit New York City In a year.

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