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Question

A cargo van is carrying 20 identical steel cylinders. Each cylinder contains compressed oxygen. Altogether, the cylinders weight 1/2 of a ton.

a. In tons, what is the weight of each cylinder?

b. One ton=2,000 pounds. In pounds, what is the weight of each cylinder?

Answer 1

Hi Hannah

 

Total weight of 20 cylinders = 1/2 ton

 

 

so weight of each one = 1/(20*2) = 1/40 ton = 0.025 ton

 

One ton = 2000 pound

 so 0.025 ton = 2000*0.025 = 50 pound