Question

A fruit company delivers its fruit in two types of boxes: large and small. A delivery of 3 large boxes and 5 small boxes has a total weight of 121 kilograms. A

delivery of 6 large boxes and 2 small boxes has a total weight of 136 kilograms. How much does each type of box weigh?
Weight of each large box: [kilogram(s)
Weight of each small box: kilogram(s)
?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Weight of each large box: 18.25kg

Weight of each small box: 13.25kg

Explanation:

For this question, we have two unknowns, but we can solve them as we are given two equations.

If we use the variables 'L' for Large and 'S' for small, we an write out the information given to us as equations:

3L + 5S = 121

6L + 2S = 136

Now we can solve these simultaneous equations by multiplying one of them by a constant so that one of the variable co-efficients are the same so we can cancel them. We can see here that we can easily double the first equation which would result in both having 6L:

2(3L + 5S) = 2(121)

=> 6L+10S=242

Now that we have one term which is the same, we can subtract one equation from the other:

6L+ 10S = 242

- (6L + 2S = 136)

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=>0L + 8S = 106

Now we can solve for S:

8S/8 = 106/8

S = 13.25

And use this value of S to solve for L:

3L + 5(13.25) = 121

3L + 66.25 = 121

3L + 66.25 - 66.25 = 121 - 66.25

3L = 54.75

3L/3 = 54.75/3

L = 18.25

Hope this helped!