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CCSS: 7.G.B.4
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2 Truths + 1 Lie
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Toy Duck
Last summer, this massive rubber duck was spotted floating in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor. It’s part of a project by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, who has been spreading joy through enormous floating ducks since 2007. Below are three statements about the sculpture . . . but one is a lie! Use your math smarts about scale to find the truths and the lie! Record your work and answer on the online skill sheet/answer sheet.
You would need to line up 184 toy ducks bill to tail to equal the sculpture’s length of 46 feet.
Truth or Lie?
Hofman’s duck has a scale factor of 1:240 to a typical toy duck, making it more than 900 inches tall!
You draw Hofman’s duck with a scale of 10 ft = 1 in. It’s 4.5 in. wide in your picture, so the sculpture’s width is 45 feet.