You manage a coffee shop. You begin with 25 pounds of coffee beans. You use 4 pounds of beans to brew coffee and sell 20 equal weight bags of beans. At the end of the day you have 6 pounds of beans left . What is the weight of each bag of beans you sell?

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anonymous · Answer

25 lbs coffee - 4 lbs used - 6 lbs left over = x lbs of coffee that was bagged.
x/20 = weight of bagged beans

anonymous · Answer

that help?

anonymous · Answer

Kind of so like what is the weight of each bag of beans you sell?

anonymous · Answer

find x from above explanation.
That is the total amount in lbs of beans that was bagged.
divide x by 20(bags) to find the weight of each bag.

anonymous · Answer

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