A commercial bakery mixes three types of flour—whole wheat, rye, and oat—to create a specialty bread blend. Initially, the ratio of whole wheat flour to rye flour to oat flour by weight is . The baker then adds 12 pounds of oat flour and 6 pounds of rye flour to the batch while leaving the amount of whole wheat flour unchanged. As a result, the ratio of whole wheat flour to oat flour in the new mixture becomes . What was the total weight, in pounds, of the initial flour mixture before any additional flour was added?
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The total weight of the initial flour mixture was 40 pounds.
Representing the initial amounts of whole wheat, rye, and oat flour as , , and establishes that the initial total weight is . Adding 12 pounds to the oat flour makes the new oat weight . Because the new ratio of whole wheat to oat is , we set , which yields . Multiplying the multiplier by the total number of parts () gives the original total weight of 40 pounds.
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Solving multi-part ratio change problems by expressing quantities in terms of a common variable.
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