I went to the school park with my class and found a piece of wood on the climbing frame, where we can stand.
I measured the depth of the wood and it was 2cm in depth, I then counted how many layers of wood were squished together to make it 2cm in depth; there were 14 layers. Then I got a calculator and divided 2 by 14 and got 0.14285714285 which was the deapth of each layer. So if you add that together 14 times you get 2cm.
I then wondered how many layers you would need, to hold an Elephant. So I researched the average weight of an Elephant in stone and then a human, the average weight of an Elephant was 591 stone and a human’s weight was 9.5 stone. Then I divided 591 by 9.5 and got 62 which represented 1 Elephant equalled 62 humans.
So if you need 2cm to hold a human, then 62 human’s will need 124cm to be held without falling and of course 62 human’s is the same weight as one Elephant therefore if you multiplied 124 by 14 which you got from how many layers there is to hold a human, you would find that in order for this type of wood to hold an elephant you would need 1736 layers! That’s a LOT of wood!
