SOLUTION: 15 pounds of nuts are available for baking. One pound of nuts makes 32 brownies. 1.5 pounds of nuts makes 24 pieces of fudge. I want twice as many pieces of fudge as brownies.

Question 992697: 15 pounds of nuts are available for baking. One pound of nuts makes 32 brownies. 1.5 pounds of nuts makes 24 pieces of fudge. I want twice as many pieces of fudge as brownies. How much of each should make?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
b, how many brownies
f, how many fudges

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15 pounds of nuts; no specific quantity of fudges or brownies was asked for, just a ratio given, so we might expect we want to use ALL 15 pounds of the nuts.

Accounting for the given pounds of nuts:

and a relationship between f and b was already established and ready for the substitution.

-------this many brownies can be made.

--------this many bars of fudge can be included.

Trick was to decide what variables to assign, but this can come from carefully analyzing the problem description and the question.
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