Step-by-step explanation: hopefully this helps
Answer:
- Below is the procedure to find the answer: 30,000 hot dogs.
Explanation:
The <em>average cost </em>is found dividing the total cost by the number of hot dogs:

The total cost is the the sum of amount that you invest plus the product of the cost of producing each hot dog times the number of hot dogs:


Where x is the number of hot dogs.
- Solve for x from the equation:

Which shows you how you can find that the answer is 30,000 hot dogs.
Set up as for portion with X as unknown number of gray cats. So 1/3=x/9. Cross multiply. 3X=9. Divide both sides by 3. X=3.
8/9 > 4/9
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