The chef has 25% pounds of loin strip. The trim loss on the strip loin is 35% and the cooking loss is 80% of the trimmed weight. How many pounds of trimmed, cooked strip loin will the chef have left to serve to has customers?

3.25 pounds

Step-by-step explanation:

Starting with 25 pounds we trim off 35%:

25 X. 35 = 8.75 trimmed off

This leaves 25 - 8.75 pounds of trimmed meat:

25 - 8.75 = 16.25 of trimmed meat.

During cooking we lose another 80% of the weight of the meat:

16.25 X. 80 = 13 pounds "cooked off"

So the remaining weight of meat is 16.25 - 13:

16.25 - 13 = 3.25 pounds of trimmed cooked meat.

How sad is that?