Question

Ashley found 2 boxes of sugar in the kitchen. The green box is 1.26 kg and the red box is 1.026 kg. Which box contains more sugar?

Answer 1

The green box has more sugar because if you convert it to pounds the red box has 2.26 pounds of sugar while the green box has 2.777825 pounds.

Answer 2

Answer:

Green box contains more sugar.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

Ashley found 2 boxes of sugar in the kitchen.

The green box says 1.26 kg and the red box says 1.026 kg.

we need to find which box contains more sugar.

To find this we will first check the digit at ones place.

Both the digit has 1 at the ones place. So now check the digit at tenths place.

1.26 has 2 at tenths place while 1.026 has 0 at tenths place.

As we know 2 is greater than 0, thus the number 1.26 is greater than 1.026.

Hence, green box contains more sugar.