Question

Analyse the table below to fill in the blank:

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Boat type}& \text{Catch in one trip}\\ \text{Long tail boat}& 600\text{kg}\\ \text{Machine boat}& 6000\text{kg}\end{array}$

A long tail boat has to make ___ trips to bring the same quantity of fish that a single trip by a machine boat would bring.

• A. 2
• B. 10
• C. 50
• D. 100

Answer 1

The correct option is B 10

A long tail boat and a machine boat catches 600 kg and 6000 kg of fish in one trip respectively.

To calculate the number of trips a long tail boat has to make to bring 6000 kg of fish, we need to divide 6000 by 600.

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Number of trips}& =6000÷600\\ & =10\end{array}$

Therefore, a long tail boat has to make 10 trips to catch the same quantity of fish that would be brought in a single trip on a machine boat.