15 gram pieces of chees 50 gram of chicken an three 20 gram of slices of breat what is the total weitght of the sandwitch in kilograms

Question

it is a word problem that I need help on IMMEDIATELY. Please and thank you I really need the help

Answer 1

Hi Mercedes,

First let's make sure we identify the standard quantity of our units; we have grams that we need to convert to kilograms.  Kilo means the same as 1,000 so there are 1000 grams in one kilogram.

 

Now, let's see how much all the items in the sandwich weigh:

15 grams cheese-plus

50 grams chicken-plus

3x20 gram slices of bread (so we have a total of 60 grams of bread0

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added together we get 125 total grams of everything the sandwich is made of

 

now we need to convert that to kilograms, so we set this up the following way to get grams cancelled out and we end up with kilograms

 

125 grams X 1 kilogram/1000 grams = 125/1000 kilograms or .125 kilograms