Question

You are taking inventory of bubble gum. When fullthere are 12 dozen pieces of bubble gum to a box. There are 12 full boxes and an open box with only 23 pieces of gum How many pieces of gum are there

Answer 1

1,751 pieces of gum.

Explanation:

To calculate the total number of pieces of gum, we need to consider the full boxes and the open box.

The number of pieces in each full box is 12 dozen, which is equivalent to 12 x 12 = 144 pieces per box.

Since there are 12 full boxes, the total number of pieces in those boxes is 12 x 144 = 1,728 pieces.

The open box has 23 pieces of gum.

To find the total number of pieces of gum, we add the pieces from the full boxes to the pieces in the open box:

Total = Pieces in full boxes + Pieces in open box

Total = 1,728 + 23

Total = 1,751

Therefore, there are a total of 1,751 pieces of gum.