Question

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 sandwiches. 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 ____ pounds of bacon and will make a total of ___ BLT sandwiches.

Answer 1

\[1\frac{ 1 }{ 20 } \]

Answer 2

is that the pounds of bacon?

Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

I don't understand how to do this.

Answer 5

2 Heads of lettuce=10 tomatoes=\[1\frac{ 1 }{ 20 } \] (2.5) pounds of bacon=5.25 pounds of bacon 5.25/.75=7 is 7 an answer choice?

Answer 6

or is 28

Answer 7

28 should be a choice

Answer 8

28 is a choice

Answer 9

that it, he has 5.25 pounds of bacon divided by .75 gives you 7, but every .75 pounds of bacon is 4 blt's so 7x4=28

Answer 10

does that make sence or do you want me to explain further in depth

Answer 11

No I understand, thanks for all your help :)

Answer 12

yep