Ants are famous for being strong: a leafcutter ant can carry 50 times its own weight! Of course, an ant weighs only 1/200th of a gram at most. So that big ant can carry only about 1/4 gram.
Luckily, there are lots of ants to help out: scientists think there are about 1 million trillion ants on Earth, or one quintillion — and that together they weigh the same as all of us humans!
Questions:
1. If 4 ants can pick up a 1-gram paper clip, how many ants does it take to pick up 4 paper clips?
2. If you carried a truck that weighed 50 times your weight, how heavy would that be? (You can round off your weight to the nearest multiple of 10 if you like.)
3. If we round off that it takes 1,000 ants to carry 1 kilo, how many ants does it take to carry you?
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