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A company is packing cartons of candles. Each carton can hold 75 candles. So far, 50 cartons have been packed, but only 30 cartons have been loaded on a truck. How many more candles are left to load on the truck?

User AbdullahC
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Take however many cartons that are left to be loaded and multiply by 75! And u will get ur answer which is 1500


User StatsViaCsh
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Answer : 1,500 candles.

Explanation : If there are 50 cartons, but only 30 were loaded:

50 - 30 = 20 cartons left to load.

And if there are 75 candles in each carton :

20(75) = 1,500 candles left to load

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