Question

Mrs. kirby, 58, is a moderately active woman. she works in the garden almost daily, occasionally walks with her friends, and babysits her three very active young grandchildren every weekend. she eats a fairly standard diet every day: she has cereal with milk and coffee for breakfast, some kind of salad for lunch, and a piece of meat or fish with a healthy of veggies for dinner. she usually skips desserts or has just a couple of strawberries. when asked to look at the food labels and calculate her intake of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in grams over the entire day, on an average day, she came up with the following numbers: carbohydrates: 243 g fats: 41 g proteins: 63 g calculate what percentage of mrs. kirby's total energy intake came from carbohydrates.

Answer 1

Answer:

61,01%

Step-by-step explanation:

We must consider that her total energy intake is the addition of the energy given by the carbohydrates, fats and proteins she takes.

1g of carbohydrates contains 4kcal

1g of proteins contains 4kcal

1g of fat contains 9 kcal.

That is: 243 g of carbohidrates is equal to 972 kcal; 41g of fat is equal to 369 kcal and 63 g of proteins is equal to 252 kcal.

If we sum up all the calories she intakes in one day, the result is= 972kcal+369kcal+252kcal=1593kcal.

Now, we make a rule of 3: If 1593kcal is the 100% of the intake, then 972kcal = 972kcal*100%/1593kcal = 61,01%