A chef uses the expression 0.3n to represent the pounds of beef to use in a soup recipe for n people. The soup also has 7 fewer pounds of carrots than beef,
twice as many pounds of potatoes as beef, and
half as many pounds of onions as carrots.
How many pounds of ingredients will the chef use to make soup for 40 people?

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i got 142 as my answer

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this can be solved first with pythagorean theorem, which tells us to square both legs of the triangle and sum it. this will be equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

the hypotenuse is the side "opposite" the 90 degree angle, which is x.

so we can write using pythagorean theorem,

simplifying:

to further simplify this radical, we need to use the property  

thus