Problema Solution

There are approximately 4 lbs of muscle for every 5 lbs of body weight of a certain animal.For a 140 lb animal, how much of the weight is muscle?

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as out of 5 lb 4 is musle

thus musle is 4/5 part of weight

as animal is 140

hence muscle= 140*4/5=112 lb