Question

Kylie is packing books into boxes for shipping. Each full box must not be heavier than 6kg. The books she is packing weigh 750g each. She has already packed a total of 1,500g. How many books can she add to fill the box.

Answer 1

6 Books

Explanation:

Let x be the number of books add to fill the box.

Given:

Kylie is packing books into boxes for shipping. Each full box must not be heavier than 6kg

Each book weight = 750g

She has already packed a total of 1,500g.

The full box must not be heavier than 6kg = 6000g.

And she has already fill 1500g.

Therefore, the remaining capacity of the box = Total capacity - used weight

remaining capacity =
`6000-1500`

remaining capacity =
`4500`

The remaining capacity of the box is 4500g.

Each book weight is 750g

So, x = remaining capacity divided by each book weight.

`x=(1500)/(750)`

`x=6`

Therefore, Kylle add 6 books to fill the box.