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Question 1207710: For food products to be labeled “light,”the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires that the altered product must either contain one-third or fewer calories than the regular product or it must contain one-half or less fat than the regular product. If a serving of Miracle Whip Light contains 20 calories and 1.5 grams of fat, then what must be true about either the number of calories or the grams of fat in a serving of regular Miracle Whip?
NOTE: My problem with applications involves setting up the proper equation(s) leading to the answer. This problem appears to be an inequality word problem.
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:
Answer by ikleyn(52747) About Me  (Show Source):
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For food products to be labeled “light,”the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires
that the altered product must either contain one-third or fewer calories than
the regular product or it must contain one-half or less fat than the regular product.
If a serving of Miracle Whip Light contains 20 calories and 1.5 grams of fat,
then what must be true about either the number of calories or the grams of fat
in a serving of regular Miracle Whip?
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Then in a serving of regular Miracle Whip EITHER

        (a)  the number of calories is at least 3*20 = 60 
                (no matter on grams of fat)

    OR

         (b)  the grams of fat is at least 2*1.5 = 3.0 
                 (no matter on calories).

Solved.

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I just fixed my typo - thanks to @greenestamps.



Answer by greenestamps(13195) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


For tutor @ikleyn....

In your response, you have the "one-third" and "one-half" switched....