Use this information to help you with each problem. Main Course Side Dish Food Serves Weight Food Serves Weight Roast beef 4 16 oz Potato 1 3.8 oz Chicken 2 12.6 oz Coleslaw 4 12.4 oz Vegetable 4 42.6 oz Green salad 2 5.6 oz bean soup Lasagna 4 28 oz Baked beans 4 14.2 oz Chili 1 8.6 oz Pasta 2 5.2 oz Volunteers at a food shelter package meals to feed a family of 4. The chart shows the weight and serving size of of each food. Each meal packaged can only wight 44oz. It can weigh less but it CAN NOT weigh more.
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4 oz of chicken. We know that 12.6 oz is 2 servings, so we can set up a proportion to find the number of servings in 1774.4 oz: $\frac{12.6 \text{ oz}}{2 \text{ servings}} = \frac{1774.4 \text{ oz}}{x \text{ servings}}$ Now, we can cross-multiply and solve for Show more…
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