A plant grows 3/4 of an inch every week.
Write the ratio in the fractional form to determine how many inches the plant grows in a month. (Assume 4 weeks in 1 month.)
A newborn kitten weighs about 1/4 pound.
Write a proportion to convert the mass from pounds to kilograms. (1 pound = 0.45 kg). Then, find the mass of the kitten in kilograms. Enter your answer as a fraction in the simplest form.
A person who weighs 100 pounds on Earth would weigh
37 7/10 pounds on Mars. If m represents a person’s weight in pounds, on Mars, which proportion could you solve to determine the weight on Mars of a person who weighs 160 2/5 on Earth?
The New Mexico Division of Fish and Wildlife keeps track of the silvery minnow population in the Rio Grande River. They tagged 54 silvery minnows and released them. A week later, they captured 62 silvery minnows, including 12 tagged silvery minnows. What is a good estimate of the silvery minnow population in the Rio Grande River?
Which ratio can you get by scaling up the ratio 5/6 chapters 1/3 hours? Select all that apply.
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3 answers
(1/4 lb) * (0.45kg)/lb = _____ kg
m/(160 2/5) = (37 7/10)/100
see what you can do with the others.
2. 0.45/1 =M/0.25.
M = 0.1125 kg.