Question

Lilee has an ant farm. The population of ants triple every month. Lilee currently has 100 ants in her farm. Write an equation that models the number of ants that lilee has in her farm

Answer 1

100 x 3

Explanation:

Well, it's a pretty simple problem.

If she already has 100 ants and it triples every month then, we'd multiply.

Key words like triple, double, twice as much can signal that a problem requires multiplication.

In this case, we'd do 100 x 3

which means that after one month, she'd have 300 ants.