Question

Question #52eb9

Answer 1

`112` cans per month were sold.

Explanation:

In word problems such as this there is often a lot of information given.

Summarise it a bit at a time and calculate what you can from what is given:

`332` boxes of cans. Each box had `24` cans.

`rarr` This means there were `332 xx 24 = 7,968` cans in total.

There were green and black beans.

`4,272` cans had green beans. the rest were black beans.

`rarr` Therefore `7,968 - 4,272 = 3,696` had black beans.

The black beans were all sold over `33` months.

`rarr` each month `3.696 div 33 = 112` cans were sold.

In one calculation this would be:
`(332 xx 24 - 4272) div 33 = 112`