Question

Mandy works construction. She knows that a 555 meter long metal bar has a mass of 40 \text{ kg}40 kg40, start text, space, k, g, end text. Mandy wants to figure out the mass (w)(w)left parenthesis, w, right parenthesis of a bar made out of the same metal that is 333 meters long and the same thickness. What is the mass of the shorter bar?

Answer 1

Answer:

Proportion b. 5/3 = 40/w is the answer and w = 24 kg.

Explanation:

it is given in the question that a metal bar was 5 meter long and has a mass of 40 kg. Mandy makes a bar again by using same metal of length 3 meters and mass w.

Since metal of the rods are same so weight per meter of the rod will be same.

mass per meter of 5 meter rod = 40/5

mass per meter of 3 meter rod = w/3

Both are same so

40/5 = w/3 is the proportion Mandy will use.

By using this proportion Mandy will get w = 3×40/5 = 24 kg

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