Omar owns a sandwich shop, and his best selling sandwich is the BLT. When making BLT sandwiches, it takes 3/4 of a pound of bacon to make 4 sandwhiches. he uses 1 1/20 pounds of bacon for every 2 tomatoes used and 5 tomatoes for every full head of lettuce used. If Omar is making enough BLT sandwiches to use 2 full heads of lettuce, then he is going to use blank pounds of bacon and will make a total of blank blt sandwiches.

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longshot512 longshot512 · Answer 1 · 2017-11-17T09:32:35+01:00

Are you sure you meant to type " [tex]1 \frac{1}{20} [/tex] " ? or did you mean "[tex]1 \frac{1}{2} [/tex] "

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erato erato · Answer 2 · 2019-08-14T17:22:49+02:00

He is going to use 21/4 pounds of bacon.

He will make a total of 28 BLT sandwiches.

It is given that:

This means that when he used 2 full heads of lettuce then the number of tomatoes which are used are: 10

( since for 1 head of lettuce --- 5 tomatoes are used.

and for 2 head lettuce---- 5×2=10 tomatoes are used )

Now, it is given that for every two tomatoes used 1 1/20 pounds of bacon is used.

i.e. for every 2 tomatoes -- 21/20 pounds of bacon is used.

Hence, for 1 tomato--- (21/20)×(1/2) pound of bacon is used.

i.e. for 1 tomato ---- 21/40 pound of bacon is used.

Hence, for 10 tomatoes ---(21/40)1×10 pounds of bacon is used.

i.e. for 10 tomatoes ---- 21/4 pounds of bacon is used.

with the help of 3/4 pounds of bacon 4 sandwiches are made.

Hence, with the help of 1 pound of bacon 16/3 sandwiches will be made.

Hence, with the help of 21/4 pounds of bacon (16/3)×(21/4) sandwiches could be made.

i.e. with the help of 21/4 pounds of bacon 28 sandwiches could be made.