Madam, – I recently had the pleasure of watching the movie Up with my six-year-old daughter. Afterwards, she was keen to calculate how many balloons would be required to carry her up to outer space.
In our experiment, we calculated that six helium balloons could carry a weight of 34 grams. So we needed 3,141 balloons to carry my daughter who weighs in at 17.8 kilos.
Now we need to figure out how long it will take Santa to bring all those balloons down the chimney? Who said maths can’t be fun? – Yours, etc,