Question

the westside bakery uses 440 pounds of sugar to make 1,000 cakes each cake contain the same amount of sugar how many pounds of sugar are used in each cake

Answer 1

First of all, I like the name "westside" for a bakery. :)

OK, so, you can make a proportion for this problem.

440 lbs.= 1000 cakes.
? unknown =  1 cake.
 440 divided by 1000 = 0.44 pounds