SOLUTION: Acording to doctors, a healthy diet should follow the ratio for meat to vegetables of 2.5 servings to every 4 servings. If you eat 7 servings of meat a week, how many servings of v

SOLUTION: Acording to doctors, a healthy diet should follow the ratio for meat to vegetables of 2.5 servings to every 4 servings. If you eat 7 servings of meat a week, how many servings of v

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Question 23905: Acording to doctors, a healthy diet should follow the ratio for meat to vegetables of 2.5 servings to every 4 servings. If you eat 7 servings of meat a week, how many servings of vegetables should you eat?
Answer by Paul(988) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2.5/4 = x/7 -----> cross multiply
4x = 2.5(7)
4x=17.5
x = 4.375

Hence, for 7 servings you should eat 4.375 of vegetables.
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