There are 3 aquariums in the museum. In the first aquarium there are 235.3 pound of fish food the second aquarium has 199.18 pounds of fish food the last contains 217.12 pounds of fish food. How much fish food does the museum have in the aquarium altogether?
I came up with 217.4 because I add the three numbers which was 652.40 and divided that by 3. came up with 217.4
Multiple choice?
Why did you divide by 3? The question asks how much food there is altogether.
To calculate the total amount of fish food in the three aquariums, you need to add the weights of fish food in each aquarium. In this case, you have:
First aquarium: 235.3 pounds
Second aquarium: 199.18 pounds
Third aquarium: 217.12 pounds
To find the total weight, you simply add these three numbers together:
235.3 + 199.18 + 217.12 = 651.6
Therefore, the museum has a total of 651.6 pounds of fish food in the aquariums.
It seems there might have been a miscalculation in your computation. To find the average weight, you correctly divided the sum of 652.40 by 3, but that gave you 217.4667, not 217.4. It's important to round your answer appropriately to reflect the precision of the original data. In this case, rounding to one decimal place, the correct answer is 217.5 pounds, not 217.4.