Question

40% of the calories in a bag of chips come from fat. If 100 calories come from fat, how many calories does the whole bag of chips contain?

Answer 1

Answer:

250

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the total amount of calories the bag bag of chirps contains.

From the question it can be deduced that, 40% of the calories that come from fat is 100.

This implies

$\frac{40}{100} \times x = 100$

Multiply through by 100.

$\implies \frac{40x}{100} \times 100 = 100 \times 100$

$\implies40x = 10000$

Divide through by 40.

$\implies \frac{40x}{40} = \frac{10000}{40}$

$\implies x = 250$

Thus, the whole bag of chips contains 250 calories