Question

in a candy factory, the nutty chocolate bars contain 22% pecans by mass. if 5.0kg of pecans were used for candy last tuesday, how many pounds of nutty chocolate bars were made? solve with using one or more conversion factors

Answer 1

the bars contain 22% pecans by mass. this means for every 1 kg bars there are 0.22kg pecans

so for 5.0kg pecans, 5.0 = 0.22 * (total mass of nutty bars)

solve for the total mass of nutty bars, in kg. now, the question wants this is pounds, so use the conversion factor (2.205 lbs/1kg) to convert to lbs.