Question

The farmer loaded 2/5 of the boxes onto the truck. He needed to load 345 more boxes of tomatoes onto the truck. How many boxes of tomatoes de he have to load altogether?

Answer 1

Answer:

575 boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the total number of boxes = x

The farmer already loaded $\dfrac25$ of the boxes onto the truck.

Therefore, the remainder $=1-\dfrac25=\dfrac35$

Since he needed to load 345 more boxes of tomatoes onto the truck.

$\dfrac35 \times x =345\\3x=345\times5\\x=(345\times5) \div 3\\x=575$

The farmer had 575 boxes of tomatoes to load altogether.