BoBo and the Zoid Tank POD #1 Instructions

This POD is due on TBA

 You can present this project in a variety of forms: See the options below

Remember to show all of your computations and answer the questions in complete sentences (Make sure you use the POD writing guidelines See below***)

Poster (10" by 14")

Power Point presentation

a story containing all the information

A song containing all the information

***Use the POD writing guidelines as a guide. Please answer the questions listed on that sheet. (you can click on the word POD in the sentence above and use it as a link to the writing guidelines information sheet) Also answer the questions listed in the explanation below.

 BOBO and the Zoid Tank

BoBo was walking down the street one day, minding his own business, when he saw a sign in the window of a pet store offering "MAGIC ZOIDS" for only $1 each. Since he didn't have anything else to do that day, and he had a spare dollar, he decided to buy a "MAGIC ZOID."

BoBo took the zoid home and put it in his 55 gallon fish tank. It looked like a normal zoid to him, so he couldn't understand why the pet store called it magic. The next day, BoBo looked in the tank and was shocked to discover that he now had two zoids! The new fully-grown zoid seemed to have appeared out of nowhere!

On the following day, BoBo was again shocked: his tank now held four zoids. When the number of zoids doubled again the next day, he began to worry that his fish tank might run out of space. He called the pet store and found out that he could keep two zoids for every 5 gallons of water.

Please help BoBo by finding the answers to the following questions:

1. How many zoids can BoBo keep in his fish tank?

2. If he bought the original zoid on October 1st, on what date would his fish tank be too small to hold all the zoids?

3. Use exponents to tell how many zoids BoBo had on October 10th. (click on the word "exponents" if you need some help with what exponents are)

4. Use exponents to tell how many zoids BoBo had on Halloween.

5 Point Einstein Question:

How many Zoids will BoBo have on his birthday, August 12, 2008?

(explain in detail and use exponents to express your answer)