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

Given A bakery needs 72 pounds of raisins.

Since 1 pound is equal to 16 ounces such that,

`72*16=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.