Answer:
13/16
Step-by-step explanation:
Here is the complete question
Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 65% wheat flour by weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from 1 1/4 total pounds of ingredients. What weight of wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?
Weight of wheat flour = percentage of wheat in the recipe x total pounds of ingredients
the first step is to convert 65% to a fraction. To do this, express 65 as a fraction of 100 and express the fraction in its lowest term
[tex]\frac{65}{100}[/tex]
Dividing the numerator and denominator by 5 gives
[tex]\frac{13}{20}[/tex]
Now multiply 13/20 by 5/4
[tex]\frac{13}{20}[/tex] ×[tex]\frac{5}{4}[/tex] = [tex]\frac{13}{16}[/tex]
