for science i need to calculate and answer a fermi question. A fermi question is a scientific question which basically bizarre. Anyway, my question is "How many rabbits would it take to consume all the dandelions in central park if we were to cover it entirely in these plants?
so, I've gotten to the point where i found that to do this, they would need to consume 814,900 dandelions per minute with their rate being one dandelion in .11 (individually) in other words, a rabbit can consume one dandelion in .11 seconds.
I now need to find out how many rabbits would be needed to eat 814,900 per minute and i am lost!!!
Not that I agree with your assumptions, but
numberrabbits*dandelons/min*time=814900
if time is 1 min, and rate is 1dand/.11min
solve for number of rabbits.
To find out how many rabbits would be needed to eat 814,900 dandelions per minute, you can follow these steps:
1. Calculate the number of dandelions consumed by a single rabbit in a minute:
- Since a rabbit can consume one dandelion in 0.11 seconds, it can consume (1 / 0.11) dandelions in one second.
- To find out how many dandelions a rabbit can consume in one minute, multiply the consumption rate in one second by 60 (the number of seconds in a minute).
- So, the number of dandelions consumed by a single rabbit in a minute would be [(1 / 0.11) * 60].
2. Calculate the number of rabbits needed to eat 814,900 dandelions per minute:
- Divide the total number of dandelions to be consumed (814,900) by the number of dandelions consumed by a single rabbit in a minute [((1 / 0.11) * 60)].
- So, the number of rabbits needed would be 814,900 / [((1 / 0.11) * 60)].
To perform the final calculation, plug the values into a calculator or use a spreadsheet program to divide 814,900 by [(1 / 0.11) * 60]. The result will give you the approximate number of rabbits needed to consume all the dandelions in Central Park.
Remember that this calculation assumes perfect conditions and idealized numbers, as a Fermi question often does.