Question

Chun wants to reduce the amount of garbage his office produces to 85% of the weight produced rhis month if the target weight for the garbage next month is 595 pounds how muxh garbage did chuns office produce this month

Answer 1

595/x =85/100

cross multiply and you get x=700

Answer 2

Chun's Office produced 700 pounds of garbage this month.

Explanation:

Let x be the garbage produced by Chun's office this month

We are given that Chun wants to reduce the amount of garbage his office produces to 85% of the weight produced this month

So, Amount of garbage produced next month =
`85\% of x = 0.85x`

We are given that the target weight for the garbage next month is 595 pounds

So,
`0.85x=595`

`x=(595)/(0.85)`

`x=700`

Hence Chun's Office produced 700 pounds of garbage this month.