During cooking, a chicken loses 10% of its weight due to water loss. In order to obtain 1,170 grams of cooked chicken,
how many grams of uncooked chicken must be used?
Let x be the weight of the uncooked chicken.
After cooking, the chicken will lose 10% of its weight, so the weight of the cooked chicken will be 90% of the weight of the uncooked chicken.
0.9x = 1170
Dividing by 0.9 on both sides, we get:
x = 1300
Therefore, 1300 grams of uncooked chicken must be used to obtain 1170 grams of cooked chicken.