Meat during cooking loses 40% of its weight. How much fresh meat do you need to take to get 6 kg of cooked meat?

Let us find out how many percent of the initial weight of meat is cooked, if we know from the condition of the task that this product loses 40% of its initial weight during cooking:

100 – 40 = 60.

Let’s find out how many kilograms of raw meat will need to be cooked in order to end up with boiled meat weighing 6 kilograms:

6: 60 * 100 = 10.

Answer: In order to get 6 kilograms of cooked meat, you need to have 10 kilograms of raw meat available.