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Lettuce is packaged 4 bags to a box. If there are 3.5 boxes of lettuce in the cooler how many bags of lettuce are there

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If there are 4 bags of lettuce per whole box, 4 x 3 = 12
Then you must factor in the half of a box that can still contain lettuce, 4 ÷ 2 = 2
Which means that you would have 14 bags of lettuce total.
4 x 3 = 12
4 ÷ 2 = 2
12 + 2 = 14

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