Question

Heather was assigned the task of making labels for all of the drawers in the file cabinets in her office. There were 12 file cabinets. Three cabinets have 4 drawers; all the other cabinets have 5 drawers. How many labels will Heather need to make?

Answer 1

52 Labels

8 cabinets with 5 drawers 8x5=40

3 cabinets with 4 drawers 3x4=12

40+12=52

Answer 2

Heather will need to make 57 labels to complete the task.

Explanation:

There are 12 file cabinets.

Three of them have 4 drawers.

Heather will need to make 3*4=12 labels for these cabinets

The rest of the cabinets (12-3=9) have 5 drawers.

Heather will need to make 9*5=45 labels for these cabinets

The total of labels needed is 12+45=57.

Heather will need to make 57 labels to complete the task.