Jerry wants to estimate how much a house weighs. He knows each brick is roughly 5 pounds in weight. He does some calculations and comes to a final figure of 9900 pounds. How many kilograms is this if 1 kg is approximately equal to 2.2 lbs?

Read and imagine what is happening in this problem.A builder discovers that a load of bricks is twice as heavy as a load of sticks. The total weight of 4 loads of bricks and 4 loads of sticks is 771 kilograms.What is the total weight of 1 load of bricks and 3 loads of sticks?

A scale shows a container's weight to be 64.9 pounds. You need to know the weight of the container in kilograms.Find this by completing the parts below.(a) Let x be the unknown number of kilograms. Using the values below, create a proportion that can be used to find x. Use the conversion =1 kilogram2.2 pounds.Values: x 1 2.2 64.9 _____ = _____ (b) Use the proportion from part (a) to find the weight of the container in kilograms. Do not round any computations.kilograms

A dishonest dealer sells his goods at the cost price and still earns a profit of 20% by under weighing. What weight does he use for a kg?a.750.63gramsb.200gramsc.800gramsd.833.34grams

Jerry decides to finish off his basement so he goes to buy 4 ft by 8 ft sheets of drywall, which weighs 1.7 lb a square foot. He needs 23 sheets.What is the total weight of this purchase, expressed to the nearest whole number of kilograms?

There are 2 2/3 pounds of bricks in a bag. Each brick weighs 1/3 of a pound. How many bricks are in the bag?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number. bricksSubmit