Question

lisa used 880g of a container of sugar to bake a cake and 1/10 of the creaming sugar to make cookies. She then had 3/7 of the container of sugar left. How much sugar was in the container at first

Answer 1

At the beginning, there were 2,678.26 grams of sugar in the container.

Explanation:

Since Lisa used 880g of a container of sugar to bake a cake and 1/10 of the creaming sugar to make cookies, and she then had 3/7 of the container of sugar left, to determine how much sugar was in the container at first, the following calculation must be performed:

880 + 1 / 10X = 3 / 7X

880 + 0.1X = 0.4285X

880 = 0.4285X - 0.1X

880 = 0.3285X

880 / 0.3285 = X

2,678.26 = X

Therefore, at the beginning there were 2,678.26 grams of sugar in the container.