Question

A restaurant runs the following food challenge: if a customer can finish a 72-ounce steak in 60 minutes or less, then the restaurant will pay for the steak. What is the weight of the steak to the nearest tenth of a pound?

Answer 1

The 72-ounce steak weighs 4.5 pounds when converted from ounces to pounds, which is the necessary unit to find the weight to the nearest tenth of a pound.

Step-by-step explanation:

The weight of the steak in the food challenge is 72 ounces. To find the weight to the nearest tenth of a pound, we need to use the conversion factor that 1 pound is equal to 16 ounces.

We can then divide 72 ounces by 16 ounces per pound to find the weight in pounds.

72 ÷ 16 = 4.5

Therefore, the steak weighs 4.5 pounds when rounded to the nearest tenth of a pound.

Converting from ounces to pounds is useful in various scenarios including labeling packages of steak, as Jeffrey is doing in the butcher shop.