Question

A cargo van is carrying 20 identical cylinders. Each cylinder contains compressed oxygen. Altogether the cylinders weigh 1/2 of a ton. I'm tons what is the weight of each cylinder?

Answer 1

Answer: Each cylinder weighs 1/40 of a ton.

Explanation:

If we were dealing with a total of 1 ton, than we can easily see that each cylinder would be one twentieth. Because we are dealing with a total of 1/2 ton, we can now figure out that each cylinder is 1/40 tons.