document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=220223>Question 220223</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> I can't figure this one out and it's due yesterday! please help! i can do the conversion part, but factoring in the '18%' is stumping me...<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "{{You work in a factory that makes chocolate chip cookies. Your cookies contain 18% by weight chocolate chips. If your boss tells you that yesterday, the factory used up 300 lbs. of chocolate chips, how many kilograms of cookies did the factory make?}} </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "18% of the total weight of the cookies is the chocolate chips, or 300 lbs.  Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> represent the total weight of the cookies in pounds, then <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 0.18x\"> is the weight of the chocolate chips, so you can say:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 0.18x = 300\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> by dividing both sides by 0.18 to get the total weight of the cookies in pounds and then do your pounds to kilograms conversion.  This will come out to a decimal fraction answer.  My advice:  Round to the nearest kilogram.  The reason being that the given measurement, i.e. the weight of the chocolate chips, was expressed to the nearest pound, and no result calculated based on a measurement should be expressed to a greater precision than the least precise given measurement.\r<BR>\n" );
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