A certain restaurant estimates that it loses 1/3 of the weight of its “quarter
pounder” during cooking. If the advertised weight is its cooked weight, how many pounds of meat are required to make 96 burgers?
a. 18
b. 32
c. 36
d. 240
e. 576
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Agree.Anonymous wrote:So a cooked quarter pounder weights 1/4 lbs, right?
And the question says that the burger loses 1/3 of its weight in the cooking process. That means 2/3 of the weight remains. Thus, 2/3 of the remaining weight is your quarter pounder.
Let X be the original weight of the burger before it is cooked. We can set up an equation like this:
(2/3)X = 1/4
X = 3/8
So the original weight of the burger is 3/8 lbs. If you want to make 96 burgers, multiply 3/8 by 96.
Is the answer 36?