Question

Three toed sloths have four legs. How many toes would 25 sloths have?

Answer 1

Hint:This is a word problem, first of all read the question and given information carefully, the problem is asking for the number of toes, 25 sloths would have, given that each sloth have four legs and each leg is consist of three toes that means one sloth have four times three toes which equals twelve. Use this information and elaborate the question and then answer.

Complete step by step solution:
In the question, the given information we have is that “Three toed sloths have four legs”, it means a sloth (they are lethargic animals living in treetops) has four legs and sloth’s each leg consist of three toes. Now coming to the second line “How many toes would 25 sloths have?” this line is asking if there are 25 sloths present, then in total how many toes do they have?
To find the total number of toes for 25 sloths, we will first calculate the number of toes one sloth has.
A sloth has four legs and each is consist of three toes, therefore four times three number of toes a sloth have which is equal to $4 \times 3 = 12$
Now for 25 sloths, it will be like 25 times 12, which is equal to $25 \times 12 = 300$
Therefore 25 sloths will have 300 toes.

Note: To solve this type of questions related to word problems, your first step is to read and understand the question carefully, that is what it is giving data and what it is asking. Then calmly write equations (if needed) or solve directly.