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Mazy and the very heavy termites

Last Updated 14 July 2011, 11:34 IST
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Hah! It is difficult enough counting insects, imagine counting their legs!

But scientists don’t let such things worry them. They count and they weigh and add and subtract and do all sorts of things to come up with really unimaginable facts.

One of the things the scientists have found out is that our world holds 300 kg of insects for every kg of humans. That is a 300 is to 1 ratio. Just termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.

This means that if you put all human beings on a scale (you would have to climb on to the weighing scale too!) and the weight is a certain number, then the weight of all termites put on a scale would measure 10 times that.

Now, if the termites measured 4066 units, how many units would humans weigh? You know, thinking of all insects is making me feel a bit ...you know....

Out of the maze:
406.6 units. If you apply the 10 to 1 ratio, 10:1=4066 : ? That is, 4066 divided by 10.

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(Published 14 July 2011, 11:34 IST)

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