During an average lifetime, a person sheds about 40 pounds of dead skin. In the United States, life expectacy for men is about 73.6 years. Life expectancy for women is about 79.2 years. How many pounds would a man shed in a month and how many pounds would a women shed in a month?

To get the answer would I first have to break down the years into month then divide it by 40 or divide the pounds by the years then divide it by 12?

Do it the second way you mentioned. As an alternative, you could first cnvert years to months, and divide that number INTO 40 lb.

For men, convert 73.6 years to months by multiplying by 12. That would be 883.2 months. Divide 40 lb by that number of months to get the average loss per month, 0.0453.

It is quite likely that men and women shed somewhat different amounts during their lives, but in this problem they are expecting you to assume both sexes lose the same amount, 40 lb.

the answer is that both men and women both shed 36 pounds a year.

To calculate the number of pounds a man would shed in a month, we need to divide the total pounds (40 lb) by the number of years in a lifetime.

For a man, the life expectancy is 73.6 years. So to convert this to months, we multiply by 12: 73.6 years x 12 months/year = 883.2 months.

Then, we divide the total pounds shed (40 lb) by the number of months: 40 lb / 883.2 months = 0.0453 lb/month.

Therefore, a man would shed approximately 0.0453 pounds of dead skin in a month.

We can follow the same process for calculating the number of pounds a woman would shed in a month.

The life expectancy for a woman is 79.2 years. Multiplying by 12 gives us 950.4 months.

Dividing the total pounds shed (40 lb) by the number of months: 40 lb / 950.4 months = 0.042 lb/month.

Therefore, a woman would shed approximately 0.042 pounds of dead skin in a month.