Question

Tony bought 3 boxes of 1-inch nails for a total of 297 1-inch nails and 5 boxes of 2-inch nails that had equal amounts of nails. He bought a total of 577 nails. Find the number of nails in each box of 2-inch nails.

Answer 1

Answer:

56 nails

Step-by-step explanation:

let's start with finding how many 2-inch nails he bought.

if there are 577 nails total, and 297 of them are 1-inch, then the remainder is the amount of 2-inch nails.

577 - 297 = 280

since there were 5 boxes, containing 280 nails total, then:

280/5 = 56 nails per box

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