vance ate a salad and 4/5 of a turkey burger for dinner. the salad contained 80 calories and his entire meal contained 440 calories. which equation can be used to determine x, the number of calories in the entire turkey burger?

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Answer:

[tex]\frac{4x}{5}+80=440[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the turkey burger be x

That means [tex]\frac{4}{5}\text{of turkey burger is}\frac{4x}{5}

And calories taken from salad was 80.

We have the information that the total calories were 440

The  required equation which will be used to find the x is:

[tex]\frac{4x}{5}+80=440[/tex]



The number of calories in the entire turkey burger is 432 calories.

Ratio and Proportion

A ratio is an ordered pair of the number of a and b written as a/b does not equal to zero. A proportion is an equation in which two ratios are set equal to each other.

Given

Vance ate a salad and 4/5 of a turkey burger for dinner. the salad contained 80 calories and his entire meal contained 440 calories.

To find

The number of calories in the entire turkey burger.

How to find the total calories?

[tex]\rm Total\ calories\ =\ calories\ in\ salad\ +\ \dfrac{4}{5}\ calories\ in\ burger[/tex]

Calories in salad = 80

Calories in burger = 440

Then

[tex]\rm Total\ calories\ =\ calories\ in\ salad\ +\ \dfrac{4}{5}\ calories\ in\ burger\\\\\rm Total\ calories\ =\ 80 + \dfrac{4}{5} *440\\\\\rm Total\ calories\ =\ 80+352\\\\\rm Total\ calories\ = 432[/tex]

Thus, The number of calories in the entire turkey burger is 432 calories.

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