Question

An adult female elephant weights about 8000 pounds. A newborn baby elephant weights about 200 pounds. Write the ration of the baby elephant’s weight to the adult female elephant’s weight. Write the ratio as a decimal.

Answer 1

So for this question the answer is 4 tons

Answer 2

For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables.
We have then:
w1: weight of baby elephant
w2: weight of the adult elephant
We now write the relation of pesos as a fraction:

`(w1)/(w2) = (200)/(8000)`
Simplifying we have:

`(w1)/(w2) = (1)/(40)`
Then, the ratio of weights as a decimal is:

`(w1)/(w2) = 0.025`
Answer:
the ration of the baby elephant's weight to the adult female elephant's weight is:
1:40
the ratio as a decimal is:

`(w1)/(w2) = 0.025`