This is the first problem/challenge. Work together with your class and then when you have the answer, comment on this post and include the following:
- The answer.
- If applicable, the strategies you used to arrive at the answer.
Uncle Henry was driving to Halifax when he spotted a big green gorilla on the side of the road. He screeched to a stop, jumped out of his car. He saw the outline of a number on the gorilla. He couldn't quite see the number, but he knew it was a 4 digit number. And:1) He remembered seeing a number 1.2) In the hundred's place he remembers the number is 3 times the number in the thousand's place.
3) He said the number in the one's place is 4 times the number in the ten's place.
4) Finally he said the number 2 is sitting in the thousand's place.
What is the number?
The correct answer is 2614! We got it by starting at the thousands place and working our way all the way down to the ones place. TEAM LIMABEANS WON!!![team 2] GO 6B/G!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe answer is 2,614.
ReplyDeleteTHOUSANDS: If Uncle Henry saw the number 2 sitting in the thousands place, then the thousands is done. So the first number is 2.
HUNDREDS: Now in the hundreds place Uncle Henry
remembers itʼs three times the number in the thousands place, so itʼs 6. Now we have 2,6__.
TENS: Then he remembered seeing a 1, and he said the number in the oneʼs place was 4 times the number in the tens place, so 1 has to be in the tens place, since the number in the ones place needs to be decoded by the tens.
ONES: Finally, because the oneʼs has to be four times the number in the tenʼs place, itʼs 4.
The final answer is 2,614.