Question

The farmer loaded 2/5 of the boxes onto the truck. He needed to load 345 more boxes of tomatoes onto the truck. How many boxes of tomatoes de he have to load altogether?

Answer 1

575 boxes

Explanation:

Let the total number of boxes = x

The farmer already loaded
`\frac25` of the boxes onto the truck.

Therefore, the remainder
`=1-\frac25=\frac35`

Since he needed to load 345 more boxes of tomatoes onto the truck.

`\frac35 * x =345\\3x=345*5\\x=(345*5) / 3\\x=575`

The farmer had 575 boxes of tomatoes to load altogether.