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Offline Tsiih

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Dimensional Analysis
« on: September 13, 2009, 02:14:42 AM »
A cow weighing 1265 slug can yield 10% steak. Steak may contain 9.15% fat. How many milligrams of fat can you get from 0.595 slug of steak? (1 slug = 14.59 kg) Answer in units of mg.

So far I've converted the 0.595 slug of steak into 8.68106 kg of steak.
Considering that it's kg of steak I thought of multiplying the kg by the 9.15% of fat but then again, what throws me off is the 10% steak that is yielded by the 1265 slug. I'm not exactly sure what step to take next after converting to kg ...
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Offline MrTeo

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Re: Dimensional Analysis
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2009, 06:38:19 AM »
Looks like you don't need it... as the problem says "0.595 slug of steak" that simply means that you've already got the 10% from your cow. Simply apply the fat percentage to the value of steak found out.

Hope I'm right anyway... it would be quite embarassing making a mistake on a problem like this  ;D
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Re: Dimensional Analysis
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2009, 12:31:10 PM »
AH! So my first instinct was right! Thank you very much for reaffirming!  :D
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