Given
an adult elephant weighs 5000 pounds
We need to convert from pounds to tons
As we know: 1 ton = 2000 pounds
so, we will convert 5000 pounds to tons as follows:
[tex]\frac{5000lb}{2000lb}=\frac{5}{2}=2\frac{1}{2}T[/tex]So, the elephant weighs 2 1/2 tons
