Question

I'm back with more conversions, only this time pertaining to cost.


You consult your inventory book and find the following information given as below:

Dry Storage:
Flour, All Purpose $30.00/bag 50#/bag
Flour, Bread $32.50/bag 50#/bag
Salt $1.14/container 12 oz/container
Oil, Canola $54.00/cs 2 ea 17 1/2 # container/cs


Cold Storage:
Butter $2.13/#
Eggs, Whole $23.20/tub 10#/tub
Eggs, Yolks $27.80/tub 10#/tub
Milk, Whole $3.75/ gal

Using the information given (c)

Answer 1

what does it cost to produce one recipe of egg noodles? (7# 11 oz)

Answer 2

The previous recipe I was given was

Egg Noodles:

Bread Flour - 5#
Eggs, Whole - 1# 8oz
Salt - 2 oz
Oil - 1 oz
Water - 1 #

Answer 3

I dont understand the "#". ??

Answer 4

# = pounds

Answer 5

Okay, thanks. Alright, hold on.

Answer 6

No problem, thank you for your time.

Answer 7

@Nnesha. lol I'm having a brain-fart.

Answer 8

It's alright, there's a lot of information here.

Answer 9

Sorry, I'm taking so long. lol its very tedious. XD Just a few more minutes.

Answer 10

hint: try to connect the dollar value to the number of pounds (you'll have to take 2 steps)

Answer 11

Do the pounds need to be converter to oz first? That's how they were with converting the recipes but it may be different here with cost...

Answer 12

no you don't need it to be in pounds as long as the cost is in ounces

Answer 13

Ah, yes! Correct. I didn't even think of that.

Answer 14

Also, this goes without being said probably but I'm sure we only need to focus on the bread flour, salt, canola oil and whole eggs since they're the only things used within the recipe. At least that's what I'm assuming we focus on.

Answer 15

Example:

`Salt - 2 oz`
`Salt $1.14/container 12 oz/container`

we need 2 oz of salt
there are `12 oz/container`; put another way 1 container = 12 oz

so

\[\Large (2 \ \text{oz})*\frac{1 \ \text{container}}{12 \ \text{oz}} = \frac{1}{6} \ \text{container}\]

so saying "we need 2 ounces of salt" is the same as saying "we need 1/6 of a container of salt"

Answer 16

`Salt $1.14/container`

then we convert from "container" units to "dollars" units

\[\Large \frac{1}{6} \ \text{container} * \frac{1.14 \ \text{dollars}}{1 \ \text{container}} = 0.19 \ \text{dollars}\]

Summary:
if we need 2 oz of salt, then that will cost $0.19

Now that I think about it, you probably can't buy 1/6 of a container, so you'll need to round that 1/6 to 1 and then convert "container" units to "dollars" units

Answer 17

So, Bread Flour

Bread Flour = 80 oz
Bread Flour = $32.50/bag 50#/bag

(80 oz) * 1 bag/800 oz = 1/10 bag?

Answer 18

yes 80 oz = 1/10 of a bag

but you probably can't buy a tenth of a bag. You'll have to buy the whole bag most likely

Answer 19

1/10 bag * $32.50/1 bag = $3.25 ??

Answer 20

I think it's going buy how much the ingredients would cost individually, otherwise we'd just buy one of everything and that'd be a little too obvious in my opinion.

Answer 21

That's true. I was just trying to think of how it would apply in real life, but then again this hypothetical supermarket may make an exception to buy portions of bags, containers, etc

Answer 22

This is a college cooking class and we had maybe 3 minutes of review for this, so I'd assume he'd want us to try and do some math even though it wasn't very thoroughly explained. x-x Still, do you think #3.25 for the bread flour was correct?

Answer 23

*$3.25

Answer 24

1/10 = 0.1
\[\Large \frac{0.1 \ \text{bag}}{1} * \frac{32.50 \ \text{dollars}}{1 \ \text{bag}} = 3.25 \text{ dollars}\]

everything looks good. I agree that if you need 5 pounds of bread, then it will cost you $3.25

Answer 25

I'm having trouble getting the numbers in the eggs correctly. I have

(24 oz) * 1 tub/160 , but I'm not sure what to get as the tub measurement. Could you assist me with that? Please and thanks.

Answer 26

Would it be 3/20?

Answer 27

`Eggs, Whole - 1# 8oz`

1 pound, 8 oz = 16 oz + 8 oz = 24 oz

so we need 24 oz of whole eggs

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`Eggs, Whole $23.20/tub 10#/tub`

10 pounds = 10*16 = 160 oz

24 oz of whole eggs = (24 oz)*(1 tub/160 oz) = 3/20 tub = 0.15 tub of whole eggs

correct

Answer 28

Would it be 3/20 * 23.20/1 tub = $3.48 for the 24 oz of whole eggs?

Answer 29

correct

Answer 30

Alright, super close! Just a little more. Would you mind assisting me with a smaller question similar to this? I involves the same concept, just phrased differently I believe. I don't think it will take up as much time.

Answer 31

sure I can help

Answer 32

I'll get to that one later, the canola oil confuses me a little bit'. What does it mean by 2 ea 17 1/2 ?

Answer 33

It's the "2 ea" bit that puzzles me.

Answer 34

"ea" seems like "each" but let me do a bit of thinking and research for a moment

Answer 35

Maybe it means it's a bundle of 2 containers that both have 280 oz each?

Answer 36

So 560 oz altogether?

Answer 37

Yes, because cs I believe converts to "containers" in culinary phrasing.

Answer 38

I'm guessing "cs" refers to "cups" ?

oh it's containers? hmm strange how they use the full word but then abbreviate it

Answer 39

Looking over it again, you're probably right. I'm just taking educated guesses. Although if it were cups I wonder why they wouldn't just use C?

Answer 40

I'm reading here

http://www.bettycrocker.com/how-to/tipslibrary/charts-timetables-measuring/equivalent-measures-abbreviations

that "c" is used for the abbreviation for "cup" so "cs" may be the plural of that

Answer 41

How odd, I've never seen it like that before. My teacher is pretty forgiving so if I get tiny details incorrect I think he'd understand. Again, this class isn't very math based... We're literally cooking food 99% of the time so I'll do what I can even if things are a little unclear.

I still think it comes as a bundle so they'd be 560 oz together. What do you think?

Answer 42

although when I think about this, I'm not really sure how to write it out.

Answer 43

I think I found it

http://www.beyond.fr/food/convert.html
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100501195226AA4OTFL

they're saying that `c.s.` is french for `cuiller à soupe` which is just a fancy way of saying "tablespoon"

Answer 44

`$54.00/cs`
$54 a table spoon sounds like a lot though...hmm

Answer 45

54 dollars for two containers of canola oil sounds like a lot too, lol.

Answer 46

2 ea 17 1/2 containers/cs
cs I know for a fact also means containers, I'm wondering if he could've misprinted or something.
Let's just make an educated guess, this is moreof a shown-work completion assignment so he wont be too particular.

Answer 47

ok containers makes more sense because the price is way too high if it's $54 per tablespoon

Answer 48

this canola oil better contain diamonds

Answer 49

good point

but this puzzles me when it says `1/2 # container/cs`

a container per container??

Answer 50

Okay so would it be set like 1 oz * 2 ea 17 1/2 containers/560 ?

Answer 51

I'm guessing your teacher meant to say "17 1/2 pounds per container" ?

Answer 52

Let's go with that, it makes more sense than containers per containers.

Answer 53

ok so if my assumption is correct

we need 1 oz of oil

and we have this info about the cost of oil
$54 per container
17 1/2 pounds per container

and idk what to do with the "2 ea" part

Answer 54

I think that just means we bought two containers, like they came in a bundle maybe?

Answer 55

oh ok, gotcha

Answer 56

I think it basically means 1 container is 17 1/2, but since we bought 2 containers the amount would go up by another 17 1/2, which means we would have 560 oz overall.

Answer 57

But both together they're $54

Answer 58

1 container = 17 1/2 lbs
2 containers = 35 lbs

so you can buy 35 lbs of canola oil for $54 ? That's my guess anyway

Answer 59

Yes, I think so too

Answer 60

(1 oz) * 2 containers/560 ?

Answer 61

or oops, switch those around

Answer 62

(1 oz) * 560 / 2 containers

Answer 63

or wait, no I was right the first time.

Answer 64

so (1 oz) * 2 containers / 560 = 3/1000 ?

Answer 65

3/1000 container * $54.00/2 containers = .81 cents?

Answer 66

So altogether, one serving of these stupid egg noodles would be $7.73

Answer 67

35 lbs = $54

35 lbs = 35*16 = 560 oz

1 oz = (1 oz)*(54 dollars/560 oz) = 0.09642857142858 dollars = 0.10 dollars

so 1 ounce of canola oil costs $0.10 or 10 cents

that seems kinda low to me, hmm, but then again oil is pretty cheap

this page says it's roughly 3.9 cents per fl ounce, so that sounds pretty cheap

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Canola-Oil-1-gal/13281828

Answer 68

I'd believe you're more right, and you don't use too much oil when cooking otherwise things could get yucky.

Answer 69

So it'd be $7.02, let's stick with that and take a breather.

Answer 70

tbh if it were me, I'd just buy over the threshold and not worry about the finer details. Besides I don't think you can buy half a container anyway

that sounds right though

Answer 71

what was your other question?

Answer 72

This one should be more easy, just let me know if you have any idea. I don't want to take up too much of your time since you've literally stuck around for an hour or so. I really appreciate your help, I understand things a lot better now.

5. You take 3 ounces of egg noodle dough and add it to $3.12 worth of tomato sauce and meat to make a spaghetti dinner. If you sell that spaghetti dinner for $9.99 what would be your cost of food sold for the spaghetti dinner?

Answer 73

I'm guessing all that work beforehand was just to make the egg noodle dough?

Answer 74

I'm assuming so.

Answer 75

well, the noodles anyways. I'm not sure if it makes a difference.

Answer 76

the recipe makes `7# 11 oz` of egg noodles

7# 11 oz = 7*16 + 11 = 123 oz

we only need 3 lbs or 3*16 = 48 oz of the noodles

full recipe costs $7.02

1 recipe = 7.02 dollars
1 recipe = 123 oz

48 oz = (48 oz)*(1 recipe/123 oz) = 48/123 = 0.39024 recipe
0.39024 recipe = (0.39024 recipe)*(7.02 dollars/1 recipe) = 2.7394848

2.7394848 rounds to 2.74

so for those 48 oz (3 lbs) of noodles used, it costs roughly $2.74

Answer 77

Added together, they're $5.86.
Subtract from 9.99 our profit would be 4.13, correct?

Answer 78

`You take 3 ounces of egg noodle dough and add it to $3.12 worth of tomato sauce and meat to make a spaghetti dinner`

3 oz of egg noodle = $2.74
tomato sauce + meat = $3.12

total cost per meal = 2.74+3.12 = $5.86

Answer 79

looks good

Answer 80

Ah wait, cost. My brain is melting.

Answer 81

I thought of profit for some reason, ignore that previous statement.

Answer 82

Alright, that's all.

Answer 83

Thank you thank you so much

Answer 84

well I'm sure profit will be asked at some point. A lot of companies obsess about the bottom line

Answer 85

You've probably taught me better than any math teacher I've ever had, lol.

Answer 86

I'm glad I could help out

Answer 87

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me, you're really great. Thanks so much!

Answer 88

you're welcome