Question

A contractor needs to buy nails to build a house. The nails come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 50 nails and each large box has 350 nails. The contractor bought 5 more large boxes than small boxes, which altogether had 2550 nails. Determine the number of small boxes purchased and the number of large boxes purchased.

Answer 1

7 large boxes an 2 small boxes

Step-by-step explaination

its obligatory to be 5 large boxes so i first did 350 * 5 =1750

then i just added a small box with a large until it gave the result