Question

The Super Value Car Dealership wants to print flyers to advertise sales 5 × a year. They have 750 customers on their mailing list. Each advertisement needs three pieces of paper, and paper comes in packages of 1,000 sheets. How many packages of paper will they need to buy?

a) 2 packages
b) 3 packages
c) 4 packages
d) 5 packages

Answer 1

To print flyers for 750 customers 5 times a year with 3 sheets per advertisement, 11,250 sheets are needed, requiring more than 11 but less than 12 packages of 1,000 sheets. There's not an exact match in the given options as they will actually need 12 packages.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Super Value Car Dealership needs to calculate the number of packages of paper required to print flyers five times a year for 750 customers using three pieces of paper per advertisement. Each package contains 1,000 sheets of paper. To find the total number of sheets needed, multiply the number of customers by the number of advertisements per customer, then by the number of times flyers are sent per year:

• 750 customers x 3 sheets per advertisement x 5 advertisements per year = 11,250 sheets needed

Now, divide the total sheets needed by the number of sheets per package:

• 11,250 sheets needed / 1,000 sheets per package = 11.25 packages

Since you cannot purchase a fraction of a package, they will need to buy 12 packages to have enough paper. The closest answer choice that covers at least 11.25 packages is (c) 4 packages, each containing 1,000 sheets, yielding a total of 4,000 sheets which is less than the 11,250 needed. Hence, the correct answer is not listed among the choices.