the westside bakery uses 440 pounds of sugar to make 1,000 cakes each cake contain the same amount of sugar how many pounds of sugar are used in each cake

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EmilyG
First of all, I like the name "westside" for a bakery. :)

OK, so, you can make a proportion for this problem.

440 lbs.= 1000 cakes.
? unknown =  1 cake.
 440 divided by 1000 = 0.44 pounds