1. Manuel Mendes is the chief at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He and his 96 staff members work to feed the 4500 cadets three times each day. Their sloppy joe recipe calls for 7 1/2 ( 7 and a half ) pounds of ketchup and serves 100 people. How many pounds of ketchup are needed for one meal of sloppy joes?
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2006-10-19 10:40:24 · 11 answers · asked by x0x kEwTiiE x0x 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
4500*7.5/100
2006-10-19 10:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by Scott K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing you can do the math and actually need more help understanding how to pull the information needed out of the question. By the way, kudos for not asking for the answer like most do. First read through the question and mentally seperate out the facts but understand very often you do not need all of them. So what you have is this... 1. School makes plate lunches for all students. 2. Each plate gets the same serving size of a group of stuff. 3. Apple Sausce 0.75 oz. 4. Chicken 4.5 oz 5. Milk 8 fl oz (fluid ounce is different from a weight oz) 6. Cafeteria has a 5 lb container of Apple Sauce 7. The Question: How many plate lunches can they make from the 5 lb container of Apple Sauce OK so to answer the question all you really need is: Apple Sauce serving size is 0.75 oz They have 5 lb (pounds) of Apple Sause in total Other bit of info not listed but you are expected to know or find out: 16 oz = 1 lb Once you have that you can construct the equation to solve for x. First you have to convert 5 lb to oz (5 * 16) = y. Then once you are in equal units you can divide the total available number of ounces by the serving size to find out how many servings you can get out of the 5 lb total or x = y / 0.75 Now remember since your dividing y by something less than 1 your answer for x will actually be larger than y not smaller. So the end equation becomes: x = ( 5 * 16 ) / 0.75 Best of Luck and again kudos for not asking for the answer.
2016-05-22 03:14:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
4500 divided by 100 times 7.5
2006-10-19 10:56:14 · answer #3 · answered by GRETCHEN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's break it down. Take out the information we don't need. We don't need the number of cooks or the number of times they need to feed the people. We are looking for how much ketchup it takes.
This is best solved as a two step problem. First, figure out how many times he needs to make the recipe, r.
100*r=4500
r=45 (since one recipe feeds 100 people, he needs to make it 45 times)
Now plug r in to see how much ketchup (k) he needs.
7.5 * r = k
7.5 * 45 = k
And then you have your answer.
2006-10-19 10:47:44 · answer #4 · answered by bunstihl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
4500 divided by 100 times 7.5
2006-10-19 10:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
7.5lb/100person = Xlb/4500 persons (assuming The cheif and staff dont eat
Cross multiply and solve for X
33750=100x
33750/100=x
x= 337.5 lbs Ketchup
2006-10-19 10:48:54 · answer #6 · answered by mergs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
okay alil tricky but got it i will give you the equation but you have to simplify.
7 1/2 over 100 is equal to x (what you are looking for) over 4500
will look like this without the line in b/t the #
7 1/2 = x
100 4500
2006-10-19 10:46:42 · answer #7 · answered by lîzzîÑ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
(4500/100) x 24 (ounces) then dived the answer by 16 for lbs
2006-10-19 10:48:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
4500/100 * 7.5
2006-10-19 15:33:36 · answer #9 · answered by Geo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(4500/100) x 7.5
2006-10-19 10:46:35 · answer #10 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋