Question

Workers are loading boxes onto a truck. So far, they have loaded 48 boxes onto the truck.

According to their inventory, they still need to load 96% of the boxes on the truck. How many boxes do they need to load on the truck?
Let b = the number of boxes the workers need to load on the truck.

Drag tiles to complete the equations and solve the problem. Numbers may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
0.48 returned to choices list.
0.040.480.9644850961,200
100% – 96% =
4
%
b = 48
b =

The workers will load a total of
boxes onto the truck.

Answer 1

boxes loaded already = 48

left to load = 1152

total boxes to be on truck = 1200

Explanation:

b = number of boxes to load onto truck

4% loaded is 0.04(b) = 48

b = 48/0.04 = 1200