Please answer and explain how you received this answer. A cargo van is carrying 20 identical steel cylinders. Each cylinder contains compressed oxygen. Altogether, the cylinders weigh one half of a ton. In tons, what is the weight of each cylinder?
0.5 / 20 = 0.025
Each cylinder weights 0.025 ton
0.025
0.025 ton
40 tons
To find the weight of each cylinder in tons, we can divide the total weight of all the cylinders by the number of cylinders.
We are given that there are 20 identical steel cylinders, and the total weight of all the cylinders is one half of a ton. To convert this to tons, we can divide it by 2000 (since there are 2000 pounds in a ton).
Half a ton can be expressed as 1000 pounds (0.5 * 2000 = 1000).
To find the weight of each cylinder, we divide the total weight (1000 pounds) by the number of cylinders (20): 1000 pounds / 20 cylinders = 50 pounds per cylinder.
Now, to convert 50 pounds to tons, we divide it by 2000: 50 pounds / 2000 = 0.025 tons per cylinder.
Therefore, each cylinder weighs 0.025 tons.