{"id":225694,"date":"2025-06-04T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=225694"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:44:30","slug":"ethan-planted-a-tree-that-was-1-85-meters-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/ethan-planted-a-tree-that-was-1-85-meters-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan planted a tree that was 1.85 meters tall."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ethan planted a tree that was 1.85 meters tall. Several years later, the tree is 5.30 meters tall. Which equation can be used to find<br>, the number of meters the tree has grown? 1.85 (5.30) =<br>1.85 + 5.30 =<br>1.85 +<br>= 5.30 1.85<br>= 5.30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer:<\/strong><br><strong>1.85 + ___ = 5.30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This equation can be used to find how many meters the tree has grown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Explanation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine how much the tree has grown, we need to find the difference between its height now and the height it was when Ethan first planted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original height of the tree was <strong>1.85 meters<\/strong>, and the current height is <strong>5.30 meters<\/strong>. The growth of the tree is the <strong>change in height<\/strong>, which means we are looking for the amount that was <strong>added<\/strong> to 1.85 meters to reach 5.30 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s represent the unknown growth with a blank or a variable, say <strong>x<\/strong>. This gives us the equation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.85 + x = 5.30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This equation asks: <em>What number added to 1.85 gives 5.30?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve this, subtract the original height from the current height:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.30 \u2212 1.85 = 3.45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the tree grew <strong>3.45 meters<\/strong> over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s examine the other options and why they are incorrect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1.85 \u00d7 5.30 =<\/strong> \u2192 This suggests multiplying the heights, which doesn&#8217;t relate to how much the tree has grown.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1.85 + 5.30 =<\/strong> \u2192 This adds the two heights together, giving 7.15, which doesn\u2019t make sense in this context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1.85 = 5.30<\/strong> \u2192 This is incorrect because 1.85 is not equal to 5.30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The only equation that logically represents the question is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.85 + ___ = 5.30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reflects a <strong>basic &#8220;part + change = total&#8221; relationship<\/strong> in math. In this case, the original height is the part, the growth is the change, and the total is the final height. Solving for the blank (growth) gives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.30 \u2212 1.85 = 3.45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the tree has grown <strong>3.45 meters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-80.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225695\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan planted a tree that was 1.85 meters tall. Several years later, the tree is 5.30 meters tall. Which equation can be used to find, the number of meters the tree has grown? 1.85 (5.30) =1.85 + 5.30 =1.85 += 5.30 1.85= 5.30 The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Correct Answer:1.85 + ___ = 5.30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}