SOLUTION: If you increase the amount of turkey you eat this coming Thanksgiving by 400% and you eat 12 slices this year, how many slices did you eat last year?

Question 153949: If you increase the amount of turkey you eat this coming Thanksgiving by 400% and you eat 12 slices this year, how many slices did you eat last year?
Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = slices of turkey LAST YEAR
And 400% of you eat this year that equals to , putting it into eqn:
400%(x)=12 ------------------------> working eqn
continuing:
we know we divide 400 by 100 to use into the eqn,

--------------> no. of slices ate last year
To check, simlpy 400% of 3:
Thank you,
Jojo
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