Problem 245
The Egg Problem. A certain zoo kept records of the relationship between the weight of a mother ostrich and the weight of her egg. Data for three birds is shown in the table below.
a.) Estimate the weight of an egg from a mother ostrich weighing 175 lbs.
b.) How much would you expect the egg to weigh from a mother ostrich weighing 190 lbs?
Solution
a.
Weigh of an egg from a mother ostrich weighting 175lbs is 3.5 lbs
b.
for every 5 lb of mother 0.1 lb will be increase in the weight of egg so for 190 lbs weighting of mother egg weight will be 3.8 lb