The rabbit flea Spilopsyllus has a mass of 0.45 mg. It can jump vertically to aheight of about 3.5 cm. Biologists have hypothesized that the energy for the jump is most likely derived from the elastic potential energy stored in the resilin pads ofthe two rear legs of the flea. Each pad is estimated to have a volume of about and its strain typically reaches a value of 100%. The elastic modulus of resilience is about . Is the hypothesis plausible

find the surface area of the sphere to the nearest square unit. use a calculator.

a. 254 in.2

b. 64 in.2

c. 127 in.2

d. 1,018 in.2

it is given that trillions of microbes make up to 1% to 3% of the body mass.

let's take average of this percentage: 2%

consider the average mass of the human body as 70 kg.

then, trillions of microbes would have mass  

therefore, 100 trillion micro-organisms would weigh:

this is an approximate value and could change depending on the mass of the human body and percentage of the microbes present in it.

average mass per microorganism =