Answer to Question #233598 in Algebra for Edwin

Question

the car that will tow the trailer is restricted to pull a mass of not more than 500kg.The mass of each canned fish is 440g and the mass of each empty box is 27g. The school then decided to buy only 15 boxes of canned fish needed for a month. Determine the total mass in kg of each box containing 39 canned fish.

Answer 1

Solution:

Each box contains 39 canned fish.

Mass of each canned fish = 440 g

Mass of each empty box = 27 g

Total mass of each box filled with 39 canned fish = $440\times39+27=17187\ g=17.187\ kg$

School decides to buy 15 such boxes.

Mass of these 15 boxes$=15\times17.187=257.805\ kg$