Question

Sam makes six star-shaped cookies out of dough. He puts all of the cookies on a balance and measures the total weight as 36 grams. He then squeezes the cookies into one big ball and measures the weight. What is the weight of the entire ball?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is "36 grams".

Explanation:

In this question, the weight of the ball is not mentioned but is the weight of the cookies is declared, which is equal to 36 grams, and all the cookies are squeezes into the ball and after that, it calculates the overall weight so, let assume that ball weight is =0 and then the overall weight is:

$=\text{weight of ball + cookies weight}\\\\=0+36 \ grams \\\\=36 \ grams$