Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 40% wheat flour by weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from 1 1/2 total pounds of ingredients. What weight of wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?

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Taliyah George

18 January, 09:24

Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 40% wheat flour by weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from 1 1/2 total pounds of ingredients. What weight of wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?

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Audrina Lowery · Answer 1

To answer this question, you need to find 40% of 1 1/2. To find a percentage of a value, you can divide the percentage by 100 and multiply that by the total.

In this situation, 40 / 100 = 0.4

So 1 1/2 x 0.4 = 0.6

Pasha will use 0.6 pounds of wheat flour in the test batch.