Question

6 boxes each containing 40 oranges were repacked into 8 smaller boxes. How many oranges were in each of the 8 boxes?​

Answer 1

53 oranges.

Explanation:

To find this, we must set up a proportionality formula.

6 8

- = -

40 x

Our goal is to find x.

First we cross multiply and get:

6x=320

Now we can divide each side by 6 to get x by itself.

x=53.33,

however, because you cannot have less than a whole orange in a box, each box contained 53.