2. Patrick worked for sixteen hours a day on the
mountain.
Express this as a fraction of
a full day in its lowest terms?
3. A sheep eats 5 kilos of grass in one day.
How many kilos
would it eat in a year?(365
days).
4. On board the ship back home, Patrick was given a number
of
tasks to do by the Captain.
Calculate the time it took him to do
these tasks in one week?
|
|
Time Taken to complete job each day | Total time in one week |
| Feeding the hounds | 2 hours 35 minutes | . |
| Washing the deck | 3 hours 28 minutes | . |
| Helping with the rowers | 1 hour 45 minutes | . |
| Mending torn sails | 35 minutes | . |
| Total hours each day | . |
5. Patrick learned to make his own clothes from
roughly spun wool.
He wore a knee-length tunic
while he worked. The wool was
kept in balls at Milchiú's
own farm. Each tunic weighed about
1.8 kilos. If it took
ten balls of wool to make one tunic. What was the
weight of one ball of wool in
grammes?