Question
Luceyblue
Ina&Buc&Simon&Amanda
Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:19
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Now, for those of you who were reading yesterday,
if anyone!!
Our homework was to calculate how far the pasta we
have eaten, at sea, would stretch. Well, after a long discussion, and I do mean
long, the kids decided that we could not unroll the tagleatelli to determine how
long the average length of that is, we could safely discard the length of penne,
and lassagne doesn`t really count so here is the length of spagetti that we
have eaten.............
Excited???
Amanda`s logic goes like this:
We have had 120 meals involving spagetti,
(beggining to see a pattern?), that would be 120 packets of pasta.
Each packet contains 450 pieces ( Yes Amanda did
count them, she was going to check more than one packet, but decided that
after an hours counting we could safely assume that all packetts have about the
same amount of pasta in) See how much fun you can have when
sailing!
Each piece of pasta is 27cms long.
450x120=54000 pieces pasta
54000x0.27= 14580mtrs of pasta,
So there you have it 14.58 Km of pasta,
incidently Amanda immediately came up with the fact that at the narrowest,
Norway is 6.0km across, so we coupld have laid out all the pasta almos
three times across norway. Now who says travel doesn`t broaden the
mind!
I hope all this information has made your day
complete, there was some discussion about measuring how many litres of red sauce
we have eaten, but that was discarded upon the realisation that we don`t
always finish off the sauce, and so it would probably not be an acurate
measurement!
Have a fun day, I shall now go back to
navigating us round the bottom of Mbengga Barrier reef, to the south of
Fiji!
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