SOLUTION: Hi Mrs Baker bought some flour. She used 1/4 of it to bake 6 cherry pies and packed the rest equally into 9 bags. There were 250g more flour in 2 similar bags than what ws used fo

Question 1099549: Hi
Mrs Baker bought some flour. She used 1/4 of it to bake 6 cherry pies and packed the rest equally into 9 bags. There were 250g more flour in 2 similar bags than what ws used for a cherry pie. If all the flour was packed into 25 bags instead, how much flour would be in each bag.
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Mrs Baker bought some flour.
She used 1/4 of it to bake 6 cherry pies and packed the rest equally into 9 bags.
There were 250g more flour in 2 similar bags than what ws used for a cherry pie.
If all the flour was packed into 25 bags instead, how much flour would be in each bag.
:
let x = original amt of flour in grams
then
x used to make 6 pies
then
x * = x to make 1 pie
:
"the rest equally into 9 bags."
x * = x = x in each bag
:
:
"There were 250g more flour in 2 similar bags than what was used for a cherry pie."
2(x) - x = 250
x - x = 250
x - x = 250
x = 250
x = 250
x = 250 * 8
x = 2000 grams of flour originally
:
If all the flour was packed into 25 bags instead, how much flour would be in each bag."
= 80 grams in each bag
:
A lot of chances to make a math mistake here. Check my math carefully. Ck

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