SOLUTION: A bag of rice weighs 8 ounces before it is cooked. The same bag of rice weighs 12 ounces after it is boiled in water. A large restaurant has 2,400 ounces of uncooked rice. Each

Question 699985: A bag of rice weighs 8 ounces before it is cooked. The same bag of rice weighs 12 ounces after it is boiled in water. A large restaurant has 2,400 ounces of uncooked rice. Each pot used to boil the rice holds 120 ounces of water. How much will all of the rice that the restaurant has weigh after it is cooked?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's just use the information needed to solve the problem.
8 oz. before cooked : 12 oz. after cooked.
The restaurant has 2400 oz. of uncooked rice.

8:12 = 2400:(c), where c is for the ounces of cooked rice.

c=3600
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