In 2004, it was reported that "the relationship between body mass, mm, and standard metabolic rate, bb, among living organisms remains controversial. however, in many cases b is approximately proportional to the three-quarters power of m."

(a) write a function that represents this relationship. if you must introduce a new variable, use k.

b=

the average mass of an african forest elephant is 4.7 metric tons, and that of a typical mouse is 27 grams. use part (a) to determine how many times greater the metabolic rate of an elephant is than that of a mouse. recall that 1 metric ton = 1,000,000 grams.

? times greater.