Question

The force of gravity is less on Mars than it is on Earth. As a result, the weight of an object on Mars m is 40% of its weight on Earth w. Use your function to find the weight on Mars of a space probe that weighs 15 lb on Earth.

Answer 1

What is 40% of 15 lb?

Answer 2

can you help me out with it

Answer 3

What is 100% of 15 lb?

Answer 4

6.80388555 kilograms

Answer 5

Any particular reason we changed to kg? Why didn't you get 6.81818?

Anyway, if 100% of 15 lb is 15 lb
What is 50% of 15 lb?

Answer 6

3.40194278

Answer 7

Again, why are we in kg? Are the possible answers in kg?

How did you find that value. Given 6.81818 kg, how did you determine that 50% of that is 3.402?

Answer 8

can you explain answer

Answer 9

You didn't answer my question.

Answer 10

i guess.

Answer 11

Well, then you cannot solve this problem. Good luck.

Answer 12

well thank you anyway

Answer 13

I do not believe that you guessed that many decimal places or that you randomly converted to kg.

Did you use a calculator? What buttons did you press?

Answer 14

Don't worry about it ill solve it on my own.