If a person currently consumes 3,500 calories per day and wants to cut back their daily amount by 250 calories each week, how many weeks will it take to reduce their daily caloric intake in half?
(3,500/2)/250 = ? weeks
To calculate how many weeks it would take to reduce the daily caloric intake by half, we need to determine the starting point and the target goal.
In this case, the starting point is 3,500 calories, and the target goal is to reduce it to half, which would be 1,750 calories.
To cut back the daily caloric intake by 250 calories each week, we can divide the difference between the starting point and the target goal (3,500 - 1,750 = 1,750) by 250:
1,750 / 250 = 7
So, it would take 7 weeks to reduce the daily caloric intake from 3,500 calories to half at 1,750 calories.