Question

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An elephant at an animal sanctuary weighs 5.5 tons. He receives a daily nutritional supplement. The instructions say to give 1 fluid ounce of supplement for every 250 pounds of body weight. How many fluid ounces of supplement should the elephant receive? no options I need to type it in.

Answer 1

44

Explanation:

Answer 2

44 fluid ounces.

Explanation:

It's important to keep in mind that 1 ton is 2,000 pounds.

5 x 2,000 = 10,000 pounds.

You have to add 1,000 pounds because of the '.5' at the end of the 5. That leaves you with 11,000 pounds.

Now, you have to divide by 250 to find how many fluid ounces you need.

`(11,000)/(250)` = 44.

You need 44 fluid ounces of supplement.