santasad13
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Can someone help me? I don't understand how to do my homework. Here is a sample question:
Find the total weight of the boxes of pecans in a shipment of 3-lb boxes of pecans and 2-lb boxes of walnuts, given that:
1) there were 24 fewer 2-lb boxes of walnuts than 3-lb boxes of pecans, and
2) the total weight of the shipment was 462 lbs.
Here is the given chart:
Here is what I can figure out:
Thanks for any help
Find the total weight of the boxes of pecans in a shipment of 3-lb boxes of pecans and 2-lb boxes of walnuts, given that:
1) there were 24 fewer 2-lb boxes of walnuts than 3-lb boxes of pecans, and
2) the total weight of the shipment was 462 lbs.
Here is the given chart:
Code:
| weight | number | total |
| per box × of boxes = weight |
--------|---------|----------|--------|
pecans | | | |
walnuts | | | |
--------|---------|----------|--------|
Code:
| weight | number | total |
| per box × of boxes = weight |
--------|---------|----------|--------|
pecans | 3 | | |
walnuts | 2 | | |
--------|---------|----------|--------|