Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Author:Louis Sachar [Sachar, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408812457
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

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PROBLEMS 39–42

Everybody always said that Miss Mush and Mr. Pepperadder were terrible cooks, but that wasn’t really true. The problem was that it was difficult for them to cook for a lot of people. When they only cooked for one or two people, their food, in fact, was absolutely delicious. But unfortunately there were 4,500 people at Wayside School, and the more meals Miss Mush and Mr. Pepperadder had to cook, the worse each meal tasted.

If they cooked 100 meals, the food would be excellent.

If they cooked 500 meals, the food would be good.

If they cooked 1,000 meals, the food would taste okay, but it would smell funny.

If they cooked 1,500 meals, it would taste as bad as it smelled.

If they cooked 2,000 meals, it would be awful.

If they cooked 3,000 meals, it would be rotten.

If they cooked 3,500 meals, it would be disgusting.

And if they cooked 4,500 meals, half the people who ate would have to go home sick.

They had another problem. The worse the food tasted, the less people would eat.

If the food was excellent, everyone would want to eat.

If the food was good, only 3,000 people would want to eat it.

If the food tasted okay, but smelled funny, only 2,000 people would want to eat it.

If the food tasted as bad as it smelled, 1,500 people would want to eat it.

If the food was rotten, then only 500 people would still want to eat it.

And only 250 people would still want to eat it if it was disgusting.

And only 100 people would still want to eat it when it was so horrible that half the people who eat it would have to go home sick.

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These two charts may help you solve the next four problems.

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The first chart shows how the food would turn out, depending on how many meals were cooked.

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100 meals — excellent

500 meals — good

1,000 meals — tastes okay, smells funny

1,500 meals — tastes as bad as it smells

2,000 meals — awful

3,000 meals — rotten

3,500 meals — disgusting

4,500 meals — half the people who eat would go home sick

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The second chart shows how many people would want to eat at the different taste levels.

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excellent — 4,500 would want to eat

good — 3,000 would want to eat

tastes okay, smells funny — 2,000 would want to eat

tastes as bad as it smells — 1,500 would want to eat

awful — 1,000 would want to eat

rotten — 500 would want to eat

disgusting — 250 would want to eat

half the people who eat would go home sick — 100 would want to eat

PROBLEM 39

If they cook 1,000 meals, how many meals would be eaten?

PROBLEM 40

If they cook 3,000 meals, how many meals would be eaten?

PROBLEM 41

How many meals should they cook so that the most number of people eat?

PROBLEM 42

If they cook 4,500 meals, how many people will go home sick?

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