Question

Part of a manufacturing plant packages tissues in boxes. Each box contains 250 tissues. Part A: Write an algebraic expression that can be used to find the total number of tissues packaged one day. Describe what the variable stands for in your expression. Part B: In one hour, 87,500 tissues are packaged into boxes. How many boxes of tissues are packaged? Show your work. Answer: boxes

Answer 1

Given

A manufacturing plant packages tissues in boxes and each box contains 250 tissues.

Required

We need to find an algebraic expression that illustrates the number of tissues packed per day.

Step-by-step explanation

Let x be the number of boxes manufactured in one day

Then total number of tissues manufactured on that day is 250x

This answers our first part.

Now in one hour 87500 tissues are manufactured

Let the number of boxes packed in one hour be y

Then

`y=\frac{number\text{ }of\text{ }tissues\text{ }in\text{ }one\text{ }hour}{number\text{ }of\text{ }tissues\text{ }in\text{ }each\text{ }box}=(87500)/(250)=350\text{ boxes}`

So the answer to second part is 350 boxes.