SOLUTION: The number of calories in taco bells express salad exceeds the number of calories in buger kings chicken caesar salad by 125. The number of calories in Wendy's mandarin chicken sal

Question 647984: The number of calories in taco bells express salad exceeds the number of calories in buger kings chicken caesar salad by 125. The number of calories in Wendy's mandarin chicken salad exceeds the number of calories in the chicken Caesar salad by 95. Combined, the three salads contain 1750 calories. Determine the number of calories in each salad
Answer by Algebraic(50) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's begin by breaking up what is given to us in the word problem.
Number of calories in Burger King's Chicken Caesar Salad: <-- because it's the unknown
Number of calories in Taco Bell's Express Salad: <-- because it has 125 more calories than the Burger King Chicken Caesar Salad
Number of calories in Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad: <-- because it has 95 more calories than the Burger King Chicken Caesar Salad
Total of all the salad calories put together: <-- We know that the sum of all the numbers will have to equal this
Step 1: Add all of the factors together, and set the sum equal to 1750

Step 2: Combine like terms

Step 3: Subtract '220' on both sides to get '3x' by itself

Step 4: Divide both sides by '3' to get 'x' by itself

We know now that the number of calories in the Burger King Chicken Caesar Salad is
To find the amount of calories in the other two salads, simply just add to the other two equations we came up with at the beginning of the problem.
Step 1: Number of calories in Taco Bell's Express Salad:
Take and add it to to find the number of calories.

The number of calories in Taco Bell's Express Salad is
Step 2: Number of calories in Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad:
Take and add it to to find the number of calories.

The number of calories in Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad is
So... here are your answers:
The number of calories in Burger King's Chicken Caesar Salad is
The number of calories in Taco Bell's Express Salad is
The number of calories in Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad is
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