Question

The Twin City food processing plant in Ellensburg produces frozen packages of frozen carrots and/or frozen corn. It can produce either 20-ounce packages of frozen carrots, or 10-ounce packages of frozen corn, or some combination of both. If the plant produces 2,085 of frozen carrots 2,643 of frozen corn tomorrow, what is its total output to the nearest pound? Be sure to convert ounces to pounds, and give your result to the nearest pound.

Answer 1

The Twin City food processing plant produces a total output of 395 pounds of frozen carrots and corn.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the total output of the Twin City food processing plant, we need to convert the ounces to pounds and then add up the quantities of frozen carrots and frozen corn.

There are 16 ounces in a pound, so the plant produces 2085 / 16 = 130.313 pounds of frozen carrots.

There are 10 ounces in a pound, so the plant produces 2643 / 10 = 264.3 pounds of frozen corn.

The total output is 130.313 + 264.3 = 394.613 pounds. Rounded to the nearest pound, the total output is 395 pounds.