Question

A candy shop bought 40 kilograms of jelly beans in bulk. A worker repackaged some of the bulk jelly beans into 72 cellophane bags. If the worker filled each cellophane bag with 114 grams of jelly beans, how many grams of the bulk jelly beans remain? (1 kg=1,000 g)

Answer 1

After repackaging some of the jelly beans, 31,792 grams remain from the initial 40,000 grams (40 kilograms) of bulk jelly beans.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many grams of jelly beans remain after repackaging some into cellophane bags, we must first calculate the total weight of the jelly beans that were packaged. Since each bag contains 114 grams and there are 72 bags, we multiply 114 grams by 72 to get the total weight of jelly beans that have been used:

114 grams/bag × 72 bags = 8,208 grams

Next, we convert the original 40 kilograms of bulk jelly beans to grams to determine the total weight we started with:

40 kg × 1,000 g/kg = 40,000 grams

Subtract the weight of the repackaged jelly beans from the total weight of bulk jelly beans to find the weight of the remaining bulk jelly beans:

40,000 grams – 8,208 grams = 31,792 grams remaining