Friday, June 13, 2014

Elephant Tranquilizers



An adult elephant takes 8 mL of tranquilizer to safely sedate it.  If a baby elephant was half as tall, half as wide and half as long, how much tranquilizer should be used?  (Hint: the amount of tranquilizer should be proportional to the weight which is proportional to the volume.)

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