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Some ant species can carry 50 times their body weight. It takes 32 ants to carry the cherry. About how much does each ant weigh? The cherry is 4800mg how many miligrams does each ant weigh?

 Sep 1, 2015
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4800 / 32=150 milligrams per ant. Since each ant can carry 50x its bod weight, then 150/50=3 milligrams, which about the weight of each ant.

 Sep 1, 2015
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IF the cherry is 50 times heavier than 32 ants, then each ant weights 3 mg!

 Sep 2, 2015

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