Cherry Tomato Update!

Third graders added the number of seeds they found in each 
of the10 cherry tomatoes. The total was 906 seeds.  

They rounded that number to 900 so they could

work with "nice" numbers.  They knew that if each seed 

became a plant that each plant would produced an average

 of 50 cherry tomatoes.  That meant there would be about

45,000 cherry tomatoes.  If each of those cherry tomatoes had 90 seeds, 

there would then be 4,050,000 seeds.  Yikes!  We're in 
"Tomato Haven!"

Question posed:  If a cherry tomato plant can produce so many 

cherry tomatoes full of seeds, then why isn't the earth just covered in cherry

tomatoes? 

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Do all seeds survive?  Ask a third grader!