SOLUTION: Charlene had a Cobb salad and a iced tea for lunch. The number of calories in bottle of iced tea was 4/7 the number of calories in the Cobb salad.If charlene lunch had 440 calories
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Question 760378: Charlene had a Cobb salad and a iced tea for lunch. The number of calories in bottle of iced tea was 4/7 the number of calories in the Cobb salad.If charlene lunch had 440 calories in all,how many calories were in the iced tea. write an equation.
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Charlene had a Cobb salad and a iced tea for lunch. The number of calories in bottle of iced tea was 4/7 the number of calories in the Cobb salad.If charlene lunch had 440 calories in all,how many calories were in the iced tea. write an equation.
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t = (4/7)s
t + s = 440
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Substitute for "s" and solve for "t":
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t + (7/4)t = 440
(11/4)t = 440
(1/4)t = 40
t = 160 (iced tea has 160 calories)
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s = 280 (Cobb salad has 280 calories)
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cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of calories
in Cobb salad
The iced tea has 160 calories
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