World Record Snicker’s Bar In January, employees at the Mars Wrigley plant in Waco, Texas, put together a “Guinness Book of Record winning” Snicker’s Bar. Evidently their winning candy bar (as seen above) weighed more that 4,700 pounds. It was 2 feet high and 26 inches wide. The article and description never mentioned how long this bar was. We could approximate that length by comparing the bar with the people standing behind it. 1. About how long do you guess that this candy bar is? Explain how you are judging this length. 2. What else do you wonder about this humongous bar of candy? Below is a cross section of a one-person size Snicker Bar. 3. What do you imagine that a cross section of this huge thing would look like? (Given the above dimensions, draw a cross section of the huge bar.) Peanuts Milk chocolate and caramel Nougat • Ground almonds Weight 2.07 ounces; 52.7 grams • Honey Dimensions 3.75 inches x 1.2 inches x 0.7 inches • Sugar 9.53 cm x 3.05 cm x 1.8 cm • Egg whites Servings 1 4. Does your cross section drawing of the huge bar seem to have the same proportions of height to width as the one-person Snickers Bar? 5. Again, given the information about a one-serving size Snickers Bar, how many people do you think this giant Snickers bar could feed? In the article about this winning Snickers bar, we were told that it would be shared only with Mars employees. The article claimed that this bar was the size of 43,000 single-sized Snickers bars. 6. If this wasn’t the same answer that you got for problem number 5, how do you think they calculated differently from you. Did they use more or less than 2.07 ounces for one serving? 7. Do you see any problem with trying to cut this bar up to create that many servings? Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/us/worlds-largest-snickers-bar-trnd/index.html https://gawker.com/is-fun-sized-candy-really-more-fun-a-comprehensive-inv-1653344366 Brought to you by YummyMath.com .