This month, Chun’s office produced 690 pounds of garbage. Chun wants to reduce the weight of garbage produced to 85% of the weig

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This month, Chun’s office produced 690 pounds of garbage. Chun wants to reduce the weight of garbage produced to 85% of the weig

ht produced this month. What is the target weight for the garbage produced next month?

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Effectus [21] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-07T19:28:35+03:00

Chun wants to <span>reduce the weight of garbage produced to 85% of the weight produced this month.
This means that, Chun's garbage weight next month should be equal to 85% of his garbage weight this month.

Translating this into an equation, we will find that:
garbage weight next month = 85% of garbage weight this month
garbage weight next month = 0.85 * garbage weight this month
garbage weight next month = 0.85*690
garbage weight next month = 586.5 pounds

Based on the above calculations, his target weight for the garbage next month is </span>586.5 pounds