5600 can be simplified. Say you were to just take the two zeros off the end and you would have 56. Now divide 56 by 7 and you get 8. Add the zeros back to the 8 and your answer is 7 x 800. Hope this helps.
Total meat in the recipe he wants to use = 7 pounds
Beef : pork = 3 : 1
Total pork that he will use =
x 7 pounds
= 7/4 pounds
hope this helps
If you look carefully at the graph, you may see that the slope of the line is
3-4 -1
---------------- = ------ = m
7-4 3
thus, you have the slope of the line and two points on the line. Suppose we
choose the point (4,4) and subst. the known slope and the coordinates of this point into the point-slope formula for the eqn of a str line:
y-y1 = m (x-x1)
y-4 = (-1/3)(x-4)
This is the desired equation. You could, if you wished, change this into slope-intercept form.