Question

When Three friends divide four boxes of baseball trading cards ?evenly, they each get 48 cards. How many cards are in each box?

Answer 1

36 cards in each box

Explanation:

Because each friend gets the same amount of cards, there needs to be 48*3 or 144 trading cards in total. There are 4 boxes so in each box there would be 144/4 or 36 cards in total.

Answer 2

36 cards in each box

Explanation:

Let the number of cards in each box be x.

4 * x / 3 = 48 (4 packs of cards, three friends)

x / 3 = 21

x = 36.