By drying tea leaves you can get 4.2% of its weight as tea. what weight of fresh tea leaves do you need to get 46.2 lb of tea?

1100 lb

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : By drying tea leaves you can get 4.2% of its weight as tea.

Let x be the weight of leaves.

Then, the weight of leaves after drying them will be 4.2% of x.

=  [To convert percentage to fraction or decimal we divide it by 100]

=

According to the question , we have equation :

Hence, we need 1100 lb of fresh leaves to get 46.2 lb of tea.

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