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Question 1

Estu was surprised to know that there were about one lakh varieties of rice in this country. He wondered “One lakh! So far I have only tasted 3 varieties. If we tried a new variety each day, would we even come close to tasting all the varieties in a lifetime of 100 years?”

What do you think? Guess.

Solution

We need to find out how many varieties Estu and Roxie can taste in 100 years.

Diagram 1

Step 1 — Varieties tasted in one year

First, let us find how many varieties they can taste in one year. There are 365 days in a year. They try one new variety each day.

$\text{Varieties tasted in one year} = \text{Days in a year} \times \text{Varieties per day}$

$= 365 \times 1$

$\boxed{365 \text{ varieties}}$

Step 2 — Varieties tasted in 100 years

Now, we will calculate how many varieties they can taste in 100 years. They taste 365 varieties each year. Their lifetime is 100 years.

$\text{Varieties tasted in 100 years} = \text{Varieties per year} \times \text{Number of years}$

$= 365 \times 100$

$\boxed{36,500 \text{ varieties}}$

Step 3 — Compare and conclude

The total number of rice varieties is 1,00,000. They can taste 36,500 varieties in 100 years. We can see that 36,500 is much less than 1,00,000. So, they cannot taste all the varieties in 100 years. Let us find how many years it would take to taste all varieties.

$\text{Years needed} = \frac{\text{Total varieties}}{\text{Varieties tasted per year}}$

$= \frac{1,00,000}{365}$

$= \text{273.97...}$

$\boxed{274 \text{ years (approximately)}}$

This is much longer than a 100-year lifetime.

Answer

Estu and Roxie would not be able to taste all 1,00,000 varieties in a lifetime of 100 years. They would only be able to taste 36,500 varieties. It would take them approximately 274 years to taste all the varieties.

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What do you think? Guess.

But how much is one lakh? Observe the pattern and fill in the boxes given below.

What if a person ate 3 varieties of rice every day? Will they be able to taste all the lakh varieties in a 100 year lifetime? Find out.

Context: If we ignore leap years, there are 365 days in a year. For $y$ years, the number of days is $365 \times y$ .

Q. Choose a number for $y$ . How close to one lakh is the number of days in $y$ years, for the $y$ of your choice?

Look at the picture on the right. Somu is 1 metre tall. If each floor is about four times his height, what is the approximate height of the building?

Context: The world's tallest statue is the 'Statue of Unity' in Gujarat depicting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Its height is about 180 metres. Somu is 1 metre tall. If each floor of the building is about four times his height, the approximate height of the building is 40 metres.

Q. Which is taller — The Statue of Unity or this building? How much taller?

__________ m.

Context: Kunchikal waterfall in Karnataka is said to drop from a height of about 450 metres. Somu is 1 metre tall. If each floor of the building is about four times his height, the approximate height of the building is 40 metres.

Q. How much taller is the Kunchikal waterfall than Somu's building?

__________ m.

Q. How many floors should Somu's building have to be as high as the waterfall?

__________ .

How do you view a lakh — is a lakh big or small?

Q10

Write each of the numbers given below in words:

(a) 3,00,600

(b) 5,04,085

(d) 70,53,138

Q11

Write the corresponding number in the Indian place value system for each of the following:

(a) One lakh twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six

(b) Four lakh seven thousand seven hundred and four

(d) Ten lakhs two hundred and thirty five

Q12

The Thoughtful Thousands only has a $+1000$ button. How many times should it be pressed to show:

(a) $4000$

(b) $7000$

Q13

The Tedious Tens only has a $+10$ button. How many times should it be pressed to show:

(a) Five hundred?

(b) $780$ ?

(d) $3700$ ?

(e) $10,000$ ?

(f) One lakh?

(g) ________ ? $435$ times

Q14

The Handy Hundreds only has a $+100$ button. How many times should it be pressed to show:

(a) Four hundred? __________ times

(b) 3,700? __________

(d) Fifty three thousand? __________

(e) 90,000? __________

(f) 97,600? __________

(g) 1,00,000? __________

(h) __________? 582 times

(i) How many hundreds are required to make ten thousand?

(j) How many hundreds are required to make one lakh?

(k) Handy Hundreds says, "There are some numbers which Tedious Tens and Thoughtful Thousands can't show but I can." Is this statement true? Think and explore.

Q15

Creative Chitti is a different kind of calculator. It has the following buttons: +1, +10, +100, +1000, +10000, +100000 and +1000000. It always has multiple ways of doing things. “How so?”, you might ask. To get the number 321, it presses +10 thirty two times and +1 once. Will it get 321? Alternatively, it can press +100 two times and +10 twelve times and +1 once.

Q16

Two of the many different ways to get 5072 are shown below: These two ways can be expressed as:

(a) (50 × 100) + (7 × 10) + (2 × 1) = 5072

(b) (3 × 1000) + (20 × 100) + (72 × 1) = 5072

Q. Find a different way to get 5072 and write an expression for the same.

Q17

Creative Chitti has some questions for you —

(a) You have to make exactly 30 button presses. What is the largest 3-digit number you can make? What is the smallest 3-digit number you can make?

(b) 997 can be made using 25 clicks. Can you make 997 with a different number of clicks?

Create questions like these and challenge your classmates.

Q18

How can we get the numbers (a) 5072, (b) 8300 using as few button clicks as possible?

Find out which buttons should be clicked and how many times to get the desired numbers given in the table. The aim is to click as few buttons as possible.

Here is one way to get the number 5072. This method uses 23 button clicks in total. Is there another way to get 5072 using less than 23 button clicks? Write the expression for the same.

Q19

How many zeros does a thousand lakh have?

Q20

How many zeros does a hundred thousand have?

Q21

What do you think of this conversation? Have you read or heard such headlines or statements?

Q22

Think and share situations where it is appropriate to

(a) round up,

(b) round down,

(d) when exact numbers are needed.

Q24

I have a number for which all five nearest neighbours are 5,00,00,000. What could the number be? How many such numbers are there?

Q25

Roxie and Estu are estimating the values of simple expressions.

4,63,128 + 4,19,682,

Roxie: “The sum is near 8,00,000 and is more than 8,00,000.” Estu: “The sum is near 9,00,000 and is less than 9,00,000.”

(a) Are these estimates correct? Whose estimate is closer to the sum?

(b) Will the sum be greater than 8,50,000 or less than 8,50,000? Why do you think so?

(d) Exact value of 4,63,128 + 4,19,682 = ________

Q26

14,63,128 – 4,90,020

Roxie: “The difference is near 10,00,000 and is less than 10,00,000.” Estu: “The difference is near 9,00,000 and is more than 9,00,000.”

(a) Are these estimates correct? Whose estimate is closer to the difference?

(b) Will the difference be greater than 9,50,000 or less than 9,50,000? Why do you think so?

(d) Exact value of 14,63,128 – 4,90,020 = ________

Q27

From the information given in the table, answer the following questions by approximation:

(i) What is your general observation about this data? Share it with the class.

(ii) What is an appropriate title for the above table?

(iii) How much is the population of Pune in 2011? Approximately, by how much has it increased compared to 2001?

(iv) Which city's population increased the most between 2001 and 2011?

(v) Are there cities whose population has almost doubled? Which are they?

(vi) By what number should we multiply Patna's population to get a number/population close to that of Mumbai?

Q33

Using the meaning of multiplication and division, can you explain why multiplying by 5 is the same as dividing by 2 and multiplying by 10?

Q34

How Long is the Product?

In each of the following boxes, the multiplications produce interesting patterns. Evaluate them to find the pattern. Extend the multiplications based on the observed pattern.

Q35

Observe the number of digits in the two numbers being multiplied and their product in each case. Is there any connection between the numbers being multiplied and the number of digits in their product?

Q36

Roxie says that the product of two 2-digit numbers can only be a 3- or a 4-digit number. Is she correct?

Q37

Should we try all possible multiplications with 2-digit numbers to tell whether Roxie’s claim is true? Or is there a better way to find out?

Q38

Can multiplying a 3-digit number with another 3-digit number give a 4-digit number?

Q39

Can multiplying a 4-digit number with a 2-digit number give a 5-digit number?

Q40

Observe the multiplication statements below. Do you notice any patterns? See if this pattern extends for other numbers as well.

Q41

Calculate the product to uncover the fact:

$1250 \times 380$

Read the resulting number in both Indian and American naming systems.

Also consider the questions:

How many years did he live to compose so many songs?
At what age did he start composing songs?
If he composed 4,75,000 songs, how many songs per year did he have to compose?

Q42

Calculate the product to uncover the fact:

$2100 \times 70,000$

Read the resulting number in both Indian and American naming systems.

Q43

Calculate the quotient to uncover the fact:

$10,50,00,000 \div 700$

Q44

Calculate the quotient to uncover the fact:

$52,00,00,000,000 \div 130$

Q45

The RMS Titanic ship carried about 2500 passengers. Can the population of Mumbai fit into 5000 such ships?

Q46

Inspired by this strange question, Roxie wondered, “If I could travel 100 kilometers every day, could I reach the Moon in 10 years?” (The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 3,84,400 km.)

How far would she have travelled in a year?
How far would she have travelled in 10 years?
Is it not easier to perform these calculations in stages? You can use this method for all large calculations.

Q47

Find out if you can reach the Sun in a lifetime, if you travel 1000 kilometers every day. (You had written down the distance between the Earth and the Sun in a previous exercise.)

Q48

Make necessary reasonable assumptions and answer the questions below:

(a) If a single sheet of paper weighs 5 grams, could you lift one lakh sheets of paper together at the same time?

(b) If 250 babies are born every minute across the world, will a million babies be born in a day?

Q49

Think and create more such fun questions and share them with your class.