Question

Mandy works construction. She has a 5-meter long metal bar that weighs 40 kg. What is the weight of the metal bar that is 3 meters long?

Please show your work if you can!

Answer 1

It should be 24 because 5:40 have the same ratio as 3:24

Answer 2

24 kg

Explanation:

Simple!

Divide 40kg by 5 meters to get 8kg/m

Then plug this into the equation 3m=?kg to get 24kg.