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Their Own Body Weight

May 9, 2018

Two ants debate whether to fear humans: relative strength versus absolute strength.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-05-09-their-own-body-weight/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Ant 1: "C'mon, what's to fear? Humans can barely lift their own body weight."

Ant 2: "Yes, but they can lift 20,000 times our body weight."

Ant 1: "Ugh. What an alarmist perspective."

Topics
Number & Arithmetic › Ratios & ProportionsGeometry › Scaling & SimilarityNumber & Arithmetic › Large Numbers
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
AnimalsNature & Science