Question

The nutrition fact on a particular snack food states that 40% of calories come from fat. If 20 of the total calories come from fat, how many total calories are in the food.

Answer 1

Answer:

The total calories in the food is 50.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Calories coming from fat = 20

In percentile calories coming from fat = 40%

Solution,

Let the total calories in the food be 'x'.

And given that 40% of the total calories are coming from fat, which is 20.

That means x multiplied with 40% is equal to 20.

So framing the above sentence in equation form, we get;

$x\times40\%=20$

Now we have to remove the percentile.

For this we have to divide 40 by 100, then we get;

$x\times\frac{40}{100}=20$

Multiplying by 100 on both side, we get;

$x\times40=20\times100\\\\x=\frac{20\times100}{40}\\\\x=50$

Hence The total calories in the food is 50.