Question

An empty shipping box has a mass of 2.75 kilograms.An electronics store is packing 5 identical laptops in the shipping box. Each laptop has a mass of 1.65kg.

Answer 1

The answer is 11 kg because the box already weighs 2.75kg and so you could set an equation of 2.75+1.65(5)= 11 kg

Answer 2

It is given in the question that:

An empty shipping box has a mass of 2.75 kilograms.An electronics store is packing 5 identical laptops in the shipping box.

Weight of one laptop is 1.65 kg .

So weight of 5 identical laptops is

`1.65*5 = 8.25 kg`

Therefore total weight of the box after packing 5 identical laptops in it is

`2.75+8.25 = 11 kg`