Mini-dress in Tweedine wool (4)

PROBLEM.
Mélusine’s belt.

Mélusine wants to make a belt in French knitting to go with her Tweedine wool mini-dress.

1. Given that Mélusine should make two balls of wool measuring 125m end to end into French knitting, calculate the total number of metres to be made into French knitting.

2. Given that the belt is made up of five equal parts each measuring 3.6m, calculate the total length of cord to be made into French knitting.

3. Given that Mélusine makes a French knitting cord measuring 8.4cm in 5 minutes, calculate the total number of minutes needed to make the cord. Convert into hours.

4. Multiple choice tiebreaker question.

Given that Mélusine does not have a French knitting machine, would you say that she is:

□ totally reckless

□ completely mad

□ totally out of touch with reality

□ other. Please state: .........................

Merci à Lynne Gradzki pour son aide à la traduction.