Question

Mrs. Zhang's bee farm has a population that is about 1 tenth as large as Mr. Doyle's bee farm. If Mrs. Zhang's bee population is about 46,000, about how many bees does Mr. Doyle have?

Answer 1

Mr. Doyle has 460000 bees

Explanation:

We are told that Mrs. Zhang's bee farm has a population that is about 1 tenth as large as Mr. Doyle's bee farm.

Thus;

Population size of Mrs. Zhang's bee farm = 1/10 × population size of Mr. Doyle's bee farm

Now, we are given that Mrs. Zhang's bee population is about 46,000.

Thus, from the earlier equation, we have;

46000 = 1/10 × population size of Mr. Doyle's bee farm

Thus, when we multiply both sides by 10,we get;

population size of Mr. Doyle's bee farm = 46000 × 10 = 460000 bees