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Forty boxes of baseballs weigh a total of 1,200 pounds. How many pounds would 4 boxes of baseballs weigh?How many pounds would 400 boxes of baseball weigh?

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Answer: 4 boxes of baseballs weigh 120 pounds and 400 boxes weigh 12,000 pounds.

Explanation:

We know that 40 boxes of baseballs weigh a total of 1,200 pounds.

So we can just that the unit rate of this by doing 1,200/40 = 30

After that we get that 1 box of baseballs weigh 30 pounds.

Next to find out how much 4 boxes of baseballs weigh we do 30 * 4 = 120 pound.

Lastly to find out how much 400 boxes of baseballs weigh we do 30 * 400 = 12,000 pounds









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