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A Girl Scout Troop has an order for 48 cases of cookies; each case contains 12 boxes. They just received a new order for 432 boxes of cookies. How many additional cases of cookies do they need? Please show your calculations!

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Answer:

108 additional cases of cookies

Step-by-step explanation:

48 cases of cookies = each case contains 12 boxes.

48 times 12 = 576 = old order

If they have a new order of 432 boxes of cookies. But that is NOT the answer. We need it in cases. So, you have to see how many boxes are in a case.

48 divided by 12 = 4. So 4 boxes are in a case. Now we have to find out how many cases there are. So:

432 divided by 4 = 108. So, the answer is 108 additional cases of cookies.

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