Question

Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 65% wheat flour by weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from total pounds of ingredients. What weight of wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?

Answer 1

13/16

Explanation:

Here is the complete question

Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 65% wheat flour by weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from 1 1/4 total pounds of ingredients. What weight of wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?

Weight of wheat flour = percentage of wheat in the recipe x total pounds of ingredients

the first step is to convert 65% to a fraction. To do this, express 65 as a fraction of 100 and express the fraction in its lowest term

`(65)/(100)`

Dividing the numerator and denominator by 5 gives

`(13)/(20)`

Now multiply 13/20 by 5/4

`(13)/(20)` ×
`(5)/(4)` =
`(13)/(16)`