Question

Mpho bought interlocking paving bricks sold in pallets of 1000 bricks at GH¢ 3500 per pallet. Claiming she will use more than 30000 bricks to pave the braai, assess her claim.

a) True
b) False

Answer 1

To assess Mpho's claim about the number of bricks needed to pave the braai, we calculate the cost per brick and multiply it by the estimated number of bricks needed to determine the total cost. Mpho's claim is false.

Step-by-step explanation:

To assess Mpho's claim, we need to determine if she will indeed use more than 30,000 bricks to pave the braai. First, we calculate the cost per brick by dividing the price of the pallet (GH¢ 3,500) by the number of bricks in the pallet (1,000). This gives us GH¢ 3.50 per brick.

Next, we multiply the cost per brick by the estimated number of bricks needed (30,000) to pave the braai. This gives us GH¢ 105,000.

Therefore, Mpho's claim is false.