NAME _____________________

Tootsie Roll Paper Chain

You just read about a boy making a Tootsie Roll paper chain. Now, it is your job to calculate how much money it would take to complete the task! Use the following information to help you and your partner. Yes, you may use a calculator o A large bag of Tootsie Rolls costs $2.39 o There are about 70 Tootsie Rolls in each bag o A 15 mile long chain is the goal Solve the unit rate per Tootsie Roll. Round to the nearest cent (0.01) SHOW ALL WORK USING PROPER UNITS.

Unit rate __________________________ The unit rate you calculated is how much 1 Tootsie Roll costs. If there are 360,000 Tootsie Rolls needed, how much money would be required to accomplish the Tootsie Roll paper chain? SHOW ALL WORK USING PROPER UNITS.

Now that you know how much it costs, I want you to calculate approximately how many Tootsie Roll papers are in one mile. There are 360,000 Tootsie Rolls in the 15-mile chain. Solve the unit rate for the number of Tootsie Roll papers per one mile. SHOW ALL WORK USING PROPER UNITS.

Unit rate _________________________ If you ate 1 bag of Tootsie Rolls per day (70 Tootsie Rolls), how many years would it take you to accomplish a 360,000-paper Tootsie Roll chain?

Step 1: Tootsie

If there are 70 Tootsie Rolls in one bag, how many bags make up 360,000 Rolls? Round to the nearest whole number/bag.

SHOW ALL WORK USING PROPER UNITS.

360,000 Tootsie Rolls = ____________ bags Step 2: The number of bags needed is the number of days needed to accomplish the task. You can find out how many years are needed by dividing the number of bags by the number of days in a year. (Exclude leap years!) Round to the nearest whole

year. # of bags needed # of days in 1 year Years needed to make a 15-mile long chain of Tootsie Roll papers ___________________ Buying the tootsie rolls isnt the only expense you would have to consider when making the Tootsie Roll paper chain. What are other expenses can you think of that would affect making the 15-mile long chain? Make a list of items.