Question

Alex is making a candy that contain 75% white chocolate in the rest peppermint sticks the candy has 3 pounds of peppermint sticks part A right any Question using one variable that can be used to find the total number of pounds of white chocolate and peppermint sticks in the candy defined the variable used in the equation part B how many pounds of white chocolate are present in the candy? Show your work

Answer 1

For this item, we let x be the amount of the white chocolate in the candy. With this representation and given that there is 3 lbs of peppermint sticks, the total mass of the candy is x+3.

Since white chocolate comprises the 75% of the candy, we make an equation that is,
                                    x / (x + 3) = 0.75
The value of x from the equation is 9 lbs.