SOLUTION: A 1-ox mouse takes about 16 times as many breaths as does a 3-ton elphant. if the two animals takes a combined total 170 breaths per minute, how many breaths does each take during

Question 602428: A 1-ox mouse takes about 16 times as many breaths as does a 3-ton elphant. if the two animals takes a combined total 170 breaths per minute, how many breaths does each take during that time period?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the number of breaths the elephant takes in one minute.
Then, a mouse must take breaths (16 times as many) in one minute.
Between the two of them, the combined total number of breaths taken in one minute would be

If , then , and
So the elephant takes 10 breaths in one minute and the mouse takes
breaths in one minute.
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