Question

A 3 pound pork loin can be cut into 10 pork chops with equal weight. How many ounces is each pork chop?

Answer 1

Answer

Find out the how many ounces is each pork chop .

To prove

Relationship between pound and ounce .

1 pound = 16 ounce

As given

A 3 pound pork loin can be cut into 10 pork chops with equal weight.

Now for 3 pound pork loin = 3 × 16

                                            = 48 ounces

now 48 ounces of  pork loin can be cut into 10 pork chops with equal weight.

Than

$weight\ of\ each\ pork\ chops = \frac{48}{10}$

                                                         = 4.8 ounces

Therefore the weight of each ounce be 4.8 ounces .