A famous barbecue restaurant in Texas makes 1,000 pounds of barbecue pork each week. The owner has a catering order that requires 100 pounds of barbecue pork. The owner uses 44 pounds of sauce for every 1,000 pounds of barbecue pork. Which equation Shows the amount of sauce needed for the catering order?

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Annabella Paul

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9 December, 17:22

A famous barbecue restaurant in Texas makes 1,000 pounds of barbecue pork each week. The owner has a catering order that requires 100 pounds of barbecue pork. The owner uses 44 pounds of sauce for every 1,000 pounds of barbecue pork. Which equation Shows the amount of sauce needed for the catering order?

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Curtis Walters · Answer 1

First, you can write the original ratio

44:1000

And since 100 is one-tenth of 1,000, you can divide both sides by 10.

Rewrite the ratio as 4.4:100

It said equation, and I don't really know what it means by that, so I'm assuming that it's the ratio.