Question

Solve for the value below:

A person ate 2400 calories in a
day. Of these, 36% came from fat.
How many calories came from fat?
A) 984
B) 830
C) 1142
D) 908
E) 864
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Answer 1

864 calories.

Explanation:

In this problem, it is given that a person ate 2400 calories a day.

36% of this total amount of calories that are eaten by the person came from fat.

Now, we are asked to calculate the number of calories that came from fat.

Therefore, the amount of calories is
`(2400 * 36)/(100) =864` calories that came from fat. (Answer)