A standard major league baseball has a mass of about 150 grams. An aspirin has a mass of about 300 milligrams. How many asprins would have about the same mass as one baseball?

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Shamshad Alam · Answer 1 · 2018-05-08T02:08:02+0000

There are 1,000 milligrams in 1 gram, so...
Let's divide

300/1,000=0.3

300 milligrams = 0.3 grams
Now...

150/0.3=500

500 aspirins would have about the same mass as one baseball