SOLUTION: a bakery makes marble rye using white,light rye, and darkrye flour. if they use three fourths as much light rye as dark rye but the amount of white flour is 50 % of the amount of
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Question 568797: a bakery makes marble rye using white,light rye, and darkrye flour. if they use three fourths as much light rye as dark rye but the amount of white flour is 50 % of the amount of dark rye, how much light rye flour is needed to make a 1,000 gram loaf? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = grams of white four used
Let = grams of light rye flour used
Let = grams of dark rye flour used
given:
(1)
(2)
(3)
Substitute (1) and (2) into (3)
(3)
Multiply both sides by
(3)
(3)
(3)
and
(1)
(1)
and
(2)
(2)
(2)
333.333 grams of light flour are needed