Question

A dentist bought 9 bags of prizes for his patients. Each bag had 12 prizes. The prizes were divided equally among 3 boxes. How many prizes were in each box?

Answer 1

36

Explanation:

A dentist bought 9 bags of prizes for his patients.

Each of the bags has 12 prizes

The first step is to calculate the total number of prizes

= 9 × 12

= 108 prizes

Since the prizes will be shared equally in 3 boxes then the number of prizes in each box can be calculated as follows

= 108/3

= 36

Hence the number of prizes in each of the 3 boxes is 36