Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School (Wayside School 2.50)

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

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

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?

Chapter 8

True or False