Mr. Chen has 124 bales of raw (from the picker) cotton. A bale of raw cotton weighs 1,500 pounds. At the gin, he had 36.2 percent cotton fiber, 33 percent seed, and the remainder in other materials.

a. How many pounds of raw cotton were produced?
b. How many pounds of cotton fiber were produced?
c. How many pounds of other materials were left?


a. 1 86,000 lb
b. 67,332 lb
c. 57,288 lb

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