Problema Solution
Kamala had 5,026 grams of flour in a bag. She bought a 4,157 gram bag of flour. She poured some flour from the bag to the canister. As a result, the mass of the flour in the canister is now twice the mass if the flour left in the bag. How much flour is left in the bag now?
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I guess you mean Kamola had 5,026 grams of flour in a canister..if thats the case we have the following solution:
let x = the flour left in the bag
5,026 grams of flour in the canister + (4,157 - x) added flour = 2* what is left in the bag
5026 + (4157 - x) = 2x
by solving we find
x = 3,061 g
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there are 3,061 grams of flour left in the bag.