The graph below shows the percentages of ingredients in a salad mix.

Question

A pie chart titled Percentages in salad mix. 40 percent is iceberg, 27 percent is romaine, 15 percent is spinach, 12 percent is arugula, 6 percent is carrots.

Dominic buys a 64-ounce container of salad mix. About how many ounces of romaine lettuce does the container have?
6 ounces
12 ounces
18 ounces
27 ounces

Answer 1

To find out how many ounces of romaine lettuce are in a 64-ounce container of salad mix, you can use the percentage of romaine lettuce given in the pie chart.

Romaine lettuce makes up 27% of the salad mix. You can calculate the amount of romaine lettuce by taking 27% of 64 ounces.

\[ \text{Amount of romaine} = 0.27 \times 64 , \text{ounces} \]

Calculating that:

\[ 0.27 \times 64 = 17.28 , \text{ounces} \]

Since the options provided are whole numbers, we can round 17.28 to 18 ounces.

Therefore, the container has about 18 ounces of romaine lettuce.