Question

Heart Fact #2: The average male human heart weighs 11 ounces.

What percent of a 175 pound man's total body weight would the heart represent?
(Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent. That involves calculating the decimal number to the thousandths place.)

And

Heart Fact #2: The average female human heart weighs 8 ounces.
What percent of a 125 pound woman's total body weight would the heart represent?
(Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent. That involves calculating the decimal number to the thousandths place.)

Answer 1

1. given that he average male human heart weighs 11 ounces. What percent of a 175 pound man's total body weight would the heart represent?% heart = (11 / 175) x 100 = 6.3 %
2. given that The average female human heart weighs 8 ounces.What percent of a 125 pound woman's total body weight would the heart represent?% heart = (8 / 125) x 100 = 6.4 %