Jeremy volunteered to bring a smoked brisket to the family reunion during cooking in a smoker a brisket loses 35% of its own cooked weight if Jeremy wants to have 12 and 1/2 lb of cooked brisket then what should the weight of the uncooked brisket me when he starts around the answer to the nearest 10th of a pound
To find out the weight of the uncooked brisket required for Jeremy to have 12.5 lbs of cooked brisket, we need to first calculate the weight of the brisket before it is cooked.
Let x be the weight of the uncooked brisket. After cooking, the brisket will lose 35% of its weight, so the weight of the cooked brisket will be 65% of the uncooked weight.
Given that the weight of the cooked brisket (12.5 lbs) is 65% of the uncooked weight, we can set up the equation:
0.65x = 12.5
Solving for x:
x = 12.5 / 0.65
x ≈ 19.23
Therefore, Jeremy needs to start with a 19.2 lb uncooked brisket to end up with 12.5 lbs of smoked brisket at the family reunion.