QUESTION

Solve the following problems using Polya’s model in 2 different strategies.

A police station has 25 vehicles consisting of motorcycles and cars. The total
number of tyres of both motorcycles and cars equal to 70. Find the number of
motorcycles and cars the station has.

Answer for question

1. For this question, the first strategy that we use is the Drawing or
Sketches’s strategy.

Step 1: FIND OUT

First, we must draw the vehicles with two tyres. Then, we must add the
tyres until the number of tyres equal to 70. After that, we can see how
much motorcycles and cars.

Step 2: CHOOSE A STRATEGY

How should we approach this problem? We can make skatches.

Step 3: SOLVE IT

Before we add 2 more tyres to make the number of tyres become 70:

OO OO OO OO OO

OO OO OO OO OO

OO OO OO OO OO

OO OO OO OO OO
 OO OO OO OO OO

After we add 2 more tyres to make the number of tyres become 70:

OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO

OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO

OO OO OO OO OO

OO OO OO OO OO

OO OO OO OO OO

Sign: OOOO – Car OO - Motorcycle

From this sketches, we can see how much number of motorcycles and
cars at the police station. There are 15 motorcycles and 10 cars in the
police station.

Step 4: LOOK BACK

Did we answer the correct question, and does our answer seem
reasonable? Yes. (If you want to know our answer is correct or not, you
must count the number of vehicle’s tyres).
 2. The second strategy that we use is Make a Chart’s strategy.

Step 1: FIND OUT

What is the question we have to answer? How many motorcycles and cars
in the police station.

How many vehicles in the police station? 25 vehicles.

How many number of vehicle’s tyres in police station? 70 tyres.

How many tyres that motorcycles have? 2 tyres.

How many tyres that cars have? 4 tyres.

Step 2: CHOOSE A STRATEGY

What strategy will help here? We could model this on paper, but accuracy
would suffer. We could also use equations. But, let’s make a table.

Step 3: SOLVE IT

Firstly, we make a table with 5 rows and 3 columns. Then, we choose our
target. For example, in the police station have 6 cars and 19 motorcycles.
So we can see the total of vehicles in the police station is 62 vehicles.
Then, we try and error with the same ratio until we get the answer which
are 15 motorcycles and 10 cars:

CARS MOTORCYCLES TOTAL OF VEHICLES (70

( 4 TYRES) (2 TYRES) TYRES)
6 19 62
7 18 64
8 17 66
 9 16 68
10 15 70

Calculation:

1 car have 4 tyres. 1 motorcycles have 2 tyres.

So, if there has 6 cars and 19 motorcycles...

6 x 4 = 24 and 19 x 2 = 38

And the total of vehicles are 62 (24+38). But, the answer is wrong.

So, we try and error with the same ratio until we get the correct answer
which are 10 cars and 15 motocycles:

10 x 4 = 40 and 15 x 2 = 30. The total of vehicles are 70 (40 + 30). The

answer is correct.

Step 4: LOOK BACK

Did we answer the question asked? Yes.

Does our answer seem reasonable? Yes.