Question

sam can't keep up with the demand for the latest best selling book. he had to order more copies twice this week.on Monday he placed an order for 120 books. on Wednesday he ordered 286 more. all the books arrived on Friday. there were 24 boxes in each box. how many boxes of books did sam receive

Answer 1

Sam would receive 17 boxes of books.

Explanation:

Given:

Books ordered by Sam this week is given as:

120 books on Monday

286 books on Wednesday

To find the number of boxes Sam received if there are 24 books in each box.

Solution:

Total books ordered by Sam this week =
`120+286=406`

The total number of books is packed in boxes of 24 books each and received by Sam.

Thus, total number of books must be divided by 24 to find the number of boxed Sam would receive on Friday.

Total number of boxes of Books received by Sam =
`(406)/(24)=16.91\approx 17`

Thus, Sam would receive 17 boxes of books.