A specific brand of gourmet chocolate candy contains 7.00 of dietary fat in each 22.7- piece How many kilograms of dietary fat are in a box containing 3.00 of candy?

Answer 1

First, you need to determine the mass in grams of the box of candy:

4.00lb x 453.59g/1 lb = 1814.36g

Second, you need to determine the number of pieces of candy in the box:

1814.36g/22.7g = 80.0 pieces of candy

Third, figure out the total amount of dietary fat in grams:

80.0 pieces of candy x 22.7g = 560 g

There are 1000 grams in a Kg, so the answer is 0.56g

The above is close but wrong.

In the last step the previous author multiplies 80.0 * 22.7 which is incorrect.

The correct step would have been to multiply 80.0 * 7.00 as 7.00 is the amount of dietary fat in each individual piece

That number 80.0*7.00 is 140

140 divided by 1000 as we are dealing with Kilos comes to 0.14

I dont mean to be rude to the previous author, I just want to correct the problem

Actually the first author was right. the correct answer is .56 kg.

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The answer is 0.56 kg but the way the two authors above did their multiplication is a little off. Everything with step one and step two is correct. But in step 3, 80.0 pieces x 22.7g = 1816 not 560. The second author has the correct formula to find the total amount of dietary fat in grams but their answer is also incorrect. No offense to any of the two authors above, just thought I'd critique your work a little bit.

1. 80.0 pieces x 7.00 g = 560g
2. 560g divided by 1000 = 0.560kg

For those of you who like short cuts

1. 4.00lb x (454g / 1lb) x (7.00g / 22.7g) divided by (1000) = 0.560kg

Answer 2

I assume this is for Chem 121. The other problem shows the steps, it comes out to 0.14.

Answer 3

.56g