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Question 373089: A dairy created a sundae with approximately 1 pound of topping for every 83.2 pounds of ice cream. The total weight of the two ingredients was approximately 45,225 ponds. to the nearest tenth of a pound, how many pounds of ice cream and how many pounds of topping were there?
Answer by amoresroy(361)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A dairy created a sundae with approximately 1 pound of topping for every 83.2 pounds of ice cream. The total weight of the two ingredients was approximately 45,225 ponds. to the nearest tenth of a pound, how many pounds of ice cream and how many pounds of topping were there?
Let x = the number of pounds of topping
83.2x = the number of pounds of ice cream
x+83.2x = 45,225
84.2x = 45,225
x = 537.1
83.2x = 83.2(537.1) = 44,687.9
There were 537.1 pounds of topping and 44,687.9 pounds of ice cream.
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