You've just purchased 12 lb of celery. you take it back to your kitchen and proceed to trim and cut it into pieces, ending up with 5.5 oz of trim. what is the yield percentage for the celery? a. 97 percent b. 36 percent c. 52 percent d. 78 percent culinary arts

The answer is A. 97 percent.

First, we need to know that

So, we've just purchased

We have ended with 5,5 oz of trim, it means that we've used 186,5 oz of celery

To know the yield percentage we just need to divide the used celery by the purchased quantity

Multiplying it by 100 (in order to convert to percentage amount) we have:

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the answer is b. i'm positive it's that answer.