A cat receives 0.15 milliliter of medicine for every 2.5 pounds that it weighs. Tabby is a cat that weighs 9.75 pounds. How much medicine, rounded to the nearest hundredth of a milliliter, should Tabby receive?

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Answer: .59 I'm pretty sure

Step-by-step explanation:

The amount of the medicine given to the Taddy nearest hundredth is 0.59 milliliters.

What are ratio and proportion?

A ratio is an ordered couple of numbers a and b, written as a/b where b can not equal 0. A proportion is an equation in which two ratios are set equal to each other.

A cat receives 0.15 milliliter of medicine for every 2.5 pounds that it weighs.

Tabby is a cat that weighs 9.75 pounds.

The nearest hundredth of a milliliter, Tabby should receive.

Let x milliliters Tabby received. Then we have

[tex]\rm \dfrac{0.15}{2.5} = \dfrac{x}{9.75}\\\\x \ \ \ \ = 0.585 \approx 0.59\ milliliters[/tex]

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