Question

Lily wants to buy 4 pounds of cereal for her camping trip. The boxes are each 18 ounces. According to the number line, how many boxes will she need to buy to have at least 4 pounds?
5 boxes
4 boxes
2 boxes
3 boxes

Answer 1

Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

1 pound=16 ounces

If each cereal box contains 18 then that means that one box has 1 pound and 2 ounces. We need about 72 ounces to reach 4 pounds.

72/18=4 ------->  4 boxes of cereal.