{"id":249939,"date":"2025-07-10T06:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=249939"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:44:56","slug":"karabo-and-tumelo-know-their-mass-in-pounds-and-ounces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/karabo-and-tumelo-know-their-mass-in-pounds-and-ounces\/","title":{"rendered":"Karabo and Tumelo know their mass in pounds and ounces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre id=\"preorder-ask-header-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">. Karabo and Tumelo know their mass in pounds and ounces<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-363-1024x240.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-249943\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a) Karabo&#8217;s mass is 85.9 kg.<\/strong><br><strong>b) Tumelo&#8217;s mass is 65.7 kg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a detailed explanation of how to arrive at these answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem requires converting a person&#8217;s mass from the imperial system, specifically pounds (lb) and ounces (oz), to the metric system unit of kilograms (kg). The final answer must be rounded to one decimal place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve this, we first need to express the total mass in a single imperial unit. The most straightforward approach is to convert the ounces into pounds and add them to the given pounds. The key conversion factor here is that 1 pound is equal to 16 ounces. Once we have the total mass in pounds, we can convert it to kilograms using the conversion factor: 1 pound is approximately equal to 0.453592 kilograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a) Karabo&#8217;s Mass Conversion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karabo weighs 189 lb 6 oz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we convert the 6 ounces into pounds by dividing by 16:<br>6 oz \u00f7 16 oz\/lb = 0.375 lb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we add this decimal value to the whole pounds to get Karabo&#8217;s total mass in pounds:<br>189 lb + 0.375 lb = 189.375 lb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we convert the total pounds to kilograms by multiplying by the conversion factor:<br>189.375 lb \u00d7 0.453592&nbsp;kg\/lb&nbsp;= 85.89885 kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the problem asks for the answer to be correct to one decimal place. We look at the second decimal digit, which is 9. Since 9 is five or greater, we round up the first decimal digit.<br>Therefore, Karabo&#8217;s mass is 85.9 kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b) Tumelo&#8217;s Mass Conversion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tumelo weighs 144 lb 12 oz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we convert the 12 ounces into pounds:<br>12 oz \u00f7 16 oz\/lb = 0.75 lb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we find Tumelo&#8217;s total mass in pounds:<br>144 lb + 0.75 lb = 144.75 lb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we convert this value to kilograms:<br>144.75 lb \u00d7 0.453592&nbsp;kg\/lb&nbsp;= 65.65788 kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we round the result to one decimal place. The second decimal digit is 5, so we round up the first decimal digit.<br>Therefore, Tumelo&#8217;s mass is 65.7 kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner9-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-249949\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Karabo and Tumelo know their mass in pounds and ounces The Correct Answer and Explanation is: a) Karabo&#8217;s mass is 85.9 kg.b) Tumelo&#8217;s mass is 65.7 kg. Here is a detailed explanation of how to arrive at these answers. The problem requires converting a person&#8217;s mass from the imperial system, specifically pounds (lb) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}