Max can trade 3 coconuts for a crab and 6 crabs for a goat. If he has 342 coconuts and he wants to convert all of them into goats, how many goats will he have?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
First find the number of crabs Max can get by dividing the number of coconuts by the exchange rate with crabs: 342 coconuts / 3 coconuts / crab = 114 crabs. Then divide the number of crabs by the exchange rate with goats: 114 crabs / 6 crabs / goat = 19 goats.
Thus, the answer is 19.