Question

Austin likes to watch squirrels find and store acorns. Brown squirrels can carry 2 acorns at the time. Gray squirrels can carry 3 acorns at the time and Black squirrels can carry 5. There is a pile of 24 acorns.

If all 3 squirrels worked together to store the acorns how many trips would the squirrels need to make to store all of the acorns. Show your work

Answer 1

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It would take 4 trips.

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Answer 2

it would take at least four because they will have 10 each trip, so 10 times 2 is 20 but, it is too low so you do three to get 30