Question

Mr. Fuller assigned his science class a lab comparing the masses of objects to the nearest gram using a balance. The mass of a paper clip is about 1 gram. How many paper clips will it take to balance the scale, if it is determined that a chicken egg has the mass of 56.8 grams?

Answer 1

Answer: 57 paper clips.

Step-by-step explanation:

The mass of a paper clip is about 1 gram. They are asking how many paper clips it will take to so that the number of paper clips and a chicken egg that has a mass of 56.8 grams will balance the scale. They are asking you to round to the nearest gram which would be 57. So 57/1 = 57. It will take 57 paper clips.

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