Students and teachers of a primary school decided to plant tree saplings in the school campus Class 6

Students and teachers of a primary school decided to plant tree saplings in the school campus Class 6

Question 1.

Students and teachers of a primary school decided to plant tree saplings in the school campus and in the surrounding village during the first week of July. Details of the saplings they planted are as follows — Class 6

(а) The total number of saplings plantedon Wednesday and Thursday is ______ .

(b) The total number of saplings planted during the whole week is _______ .

(c) The greatest number of saplings were planted on __________, and the least number of saplings were planted on ____ .

Why do you think that is the case? Why were more saplings planted on certain days of the week and less on others? Can you think of possible explanations or reasons? How could you try and figure out whether your explanations are correct?

Solution:

(a) 30 + 40 = 70

(b) 50 + 40 + 30 + 40 + 50 + 60 + 40 = 310

(c) Saturday, Wednesday.

No proper explanation can be provided for the above two situations. Some one may think it from the religious point of views, while some may think that due to weekend, there were more saplings planted on Saturday and Wednesday being in the middle of week might have been chosen for less number of plantation. One cannot be sure about his/her explanations: