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The weight of an African elephant is 6 × 106 grams; the weight of a tiger is 3 × 105 grams. How many times heavier is the elephant than the tiger?

2 grams
20 grams
200 grams
2,000 grams

User Frank Hale
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2 grams

6 x 106 = 636
3 x 105 = 315

315 x (2) = about 630
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Answer: the elephant is twenty times as heavy as the tiger.

Step-by-step explanation: The weight of an African elephant is 6 × 10^6 grams; the weight of a tiger is 3 × 10^5 grams. How many times heavier is the elephant than the tiger?

2 times

20 times

200 times

2,000 times

The weight of the African elephant is 6 x 10^6 grams = 6,000,000 grams

The weight of the tiger is 3 x 10^5 grams = 300,000 grams

Ratio of the weight of the elephant to that of the tiger is 6,000,000 : 300,000 which on division gives:

= 6,000,000/300,000 = 20.

Therefore the elephant is 20 times as heavy as the tiger.

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