The doctor next to observe a very large African elephant in the Sahara desert. The elephant weighed 24,750 pounds. During the doctors observation, the elephant gained 2 pounds for every 5ft3 of grass it ate. Of the elephant eats 15ft3 of grass per hour, how many cubic feet grass would it have eaten in 8 hours
To find out how many cubic feet of grass the elephant would have eaten in 8 hours, we first need to calculate how much grass it eats per hour.
Since the elephant gains 2 pounds for every 5ft3 of grass it eats, we can calculate how much grass it gains per cubic foot:
2 pounds / 5ft3 = 0.4 pounds/ft3
Next, we can calculate how much grass the elephant eats per hour by multiplying the weight gain per cubic foot by the amount of grass the elephant eats per hour:
0.4 pounds/ft3 * 15ft3/hour = 6 pounds/hour
Finally, to find out how much grass the elephant would have eaten in 8 hours, we multiply the grass eaten per hour by the number of hours:
6 pounds/hour * 8 hours = 48 pounds
Therefore, the elephant would have eaten 48 cubic feet of grass in 8 hours.