Question

Austin is filling shelves at a grocery store. With every carton of 12 cereal boxes, he can fill 60 cm of shelving. The rack has 10 m of shelving, but 2 m is already occupied with other products. Austin must use enough cereal boxes to fill the rack.

Answer 1

Austing needs 160 boxes to complete the rack.

Explanation:

Givens

• 12 cereral boxes occupies 60 centimeters of shelving.
• The rack has 10 meters of shelving, equivalent to 1000 centimeters.
• 2 meters are already used.
• There are 800 centimeters of shelving remaining.

To find the total number of cereal boxes needed to use the whole rack, we just need to use the rule of three: If 12 cereal boxes occupies 60 centimeters of shelving, 800 centimeters would require how many cereal boxes

`n=800cm * (12 \ boxes)/(60cm) =160 \ boxes`

Therefore, Austing needs 160 boxes to complete the rack.