<PRE><B>Question 373089</B>
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.</PRE>