Question

Question 3 of 12

A jeweler needs exactly 19,000 beads to make jewelry.

He buys 48 boxes of beads. Each box has 400 beads.

He completes the calculations below and concludes that he has bought enough boxes of beads to make all of the jewelry.


48

×

400

=

(

40

×

400

)

+

(

8

×

400

)

=

16

,

000

+

3

,

200

=

19

,

200

Which explains what the jeweler does to support his conclusion

Answer 1

See explanation

Explanation:

Given

`Needed = 19000`

Required

Support the jeweler's conclusion

From the question, we have that:

`Boxes = 48`

`Bead = 400` per box

So, he bought a total of:

`Total = 48 * 400`

`Total = 19200`

Since, he needed exactly 19000 and he has 192000, we can conclude that he has enough beads