4 Uditi wants to make a shoe tray. width
The tray will hold rows of shoes.
She wants each row to hold 6 pairs of shoes.
Uditi measures the width of 5 pairs of her shoes.
Here are the results in cm.
18.2 19.7 19.4 18.6 18.9
To find the total width of 6 pairs of shoes Uditi will multiply the median
width of these pairs of shoes by 6
The width of the base of the tray will need to be 10% more than the total width of
6 pairs of shoes and have an extra 3 cm at each end of the tray for a frame.
Uditi draws this diagram of the largest shoe tray she can make with the wood she has.
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18cm
93 cm
127 cm
Uditi thinks this tray can hold 6 pairs of her shoes in a row.
Is she correct?
Show why you think this.
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