Question

A construction company purchased 387 boxes of nails. Each box costs $87. How much did the nails cost the construction company?

Answer 1

You multiply the number of boxes purchased by the cost per box.

=387 boxes * $87 per box
=$33,669 how much the nails cost the construction company!

Some expensive nails!

Hope this helps! :)

Answer 2

$33,669

Explanation:

In order to calculate this you just need to multiply the number of boxes of nails that the company had to purchase by the cost of each box of nails:

Boxes bought*cost of each box=Total Cost

Total cost= 387*$87

Total cost: $33,669

So the total cost of the nails for the construction company was $33,669.