Question

Q. You work for a food wholesaler that provides ingredients for restaurants and other food producers. A large-scale bakery needs 72 pounds of raisins. The raisins come in 12-ounce boxes. 24 boxes will fit in a case. How many cases of raisins should you ship to them?

Answer 1

Solution:

Given A bakery  needs 72 pounds of raisins.

Since 1 pound is equal to 16 ounces such that,

$72\times16=1152$

since,

it raisins come in 12 ounce boxes

so,

$\\1152/12=96$

Since we know that each case take 24 boxes.

Thus

$\\96/24=4$

Thus the required right answer i 4 cases.