Question

Alex is making a candy that contain 75% white chocolate in the rest peppermint sticks the candy has 3 pounds of peppermint sticks part A right any Question using one variable that can be used to find the total number of pounds of white chocolate and peppermint sticks in the candy defined the variable used in the equation part B how many pounds of white chocolate are present in the candy? Show your work

Answer 1

so we know there are 3lbs of peppermint sticks in the candy, and we know 75% of the candy is white chocolate... if 75% is chocolate, that means 25% is peppermint sticks....so how much is 75% then? let's say is "x"

so part A)
`\bf \begin{array}{ccllll} amount&\%\\ \textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash&\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\\ 3&25\\ x&75 \end{array}\implies \cfrac{3}{x}=\cfrac{25}{75}`

part B) solve for "x"