Question

Omar owns a sandwich shop, and his best selling sandwich is the BLT. When making BLT sandwiches, it takes of a pound of bacon to make 4 sandwiches. He uses 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

The fractions didn't get posted due to formatting errors

But I found the same question online and I will assume that it reads
`it takes 3/4 of a pound of bacon to make 4 sandwiches. He uses 1 1/2 pounds of bacon for every 2 tomatoes used and 5 tomatoes for every full head of lettuce used.`

Answer 2

So to make BLT sandwiches

3/4 pound of bacon makes 4 sandwiches

1 1/2 or 3/2 pounds of bacon for 2 tomatoes

5 tomatoes for one full head of lettuce


so just work backwards

1 full head of lettuce gets used with 5 tomatoes

so if you're using 2 full heads of lettuce, how many tomatoes would that be?

Just multiply by 2 so what is 5*2

Answer 3

so that's how many tomatoes he uses

and now

2 tomatoes gets used with 3/2 or 1.5 pounds of bacon

so if we're using ?? number of tomatoes, then

?? is the number you just calculated in the previous step

so do you see how the tomatoes gets cancelled out and now you know how many lbs (pounds) of bacon you're using?

Answer 4

and then similarly, whatever number you get from that

we know that we use 3/4 or 0.75 pounds of bacon and that makes 4 sandwiches

so if in the previous step, you got 'x' pounds of bacon then