A drinks factory packed their drinks into red and yellow boxes. There were 24 more red boxes than yellow boxes. Each red box con

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A drinks factory packed their drinks into red and yellow boxes. There were 24 more red boxes than yellow boxes. Each red box con

tained 60 packets of milk and each yellow box contained 75 packets of fruit juice. There were 120 fewer of milk than packets of fruit juice in all
boxes.

(a) How many yellow boxes were used ?
(b) How many packets of milk were packed into the the red boxes?

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ira [324] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-24T23:29:00+03:00

ira [324]3 years ago

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Answer:

A) 128

B) 7800

Step-by-step explanation:

Trial and error until I got to 75 x 104 and 60 x 128 (which abides by the fact that there has to be 24 more red boxes) which equals 7800 and 7680 and if you take them away from each other you get 120