Question

Help please!

A crate filled with 20 cartons of gatore weights 11.45 kg. the crate, when empty, weights 5.6 kg. how many kg does each carton of gatore weight?
[I want to set up an equation for the word problem]​

Answer 1

• equation: 11.45 = 5.6 +20w
• solution: w = 0.2925 . . . kg

Explanation:

Let w represent the weight of one carton of gatore. The total weight will be the sum of the empty weight and the weight of 20 cartons:

11.45 = 5.6 +20w . . . . . an equation for the word problem

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To solve the problem, we can subtract 5.6, then divide by 20

5.85 = 20w

5.85/20 = w = 0.2925 . . . . kg

Each carton of gatore weighs 0.2925 kg.