Question

A box of oat cereal contains 425,000 milligrams of cereal. How many grams of cereal does the box contain?

Answer 1

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

`1" gram" = 1000" milligrams"`

So we can write and solve for `g`:

`g/(425000" milligrams") = (1"gram")/(1000" milligrams")`

`color(red)(425000" milligrams") xx g/(425000" milligrams") = color(red)(425000" milligrams") xx (1"gram")/(1000" milligrams")`

`cancel(color(red)(425000" milligrams")) xx g/(color(red)(cancel(color(black)(425000" milligrams")))) = color(red)(425000color(black)(cancel(color(red)(" milligrams")))) xx (1"gram")/(1000color(red)(cancel(color(black)(" milligrams"))))`

`g = color(red)(425000) xx (1"gram")/1000`

`g = color(red)(425color(black)(cancel(color(red)(000)))) xx (1"gram")/color(black)(cancel(color(red)(1000)))`

`g = 425" gram"`