Note: These Challenge Questions coincide with the Spring 2003 Reports Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 17:52:26 EDT
One ton equals one thousand kilograms. Rice and Wolman said that that a gray whale burned 19 kilocalories per kilogram of body weight each day. That would mean that a 40 ton grey whale would weight 40,000 kilograms. I then multiplied by 19 to get have many kilocaloreis a gray whales loses in one day. The answer is 760,000 kilocalories are burned by a whale each day. That's a lot of kilocalories. Jack Nguyen from Challenger Middle School.
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