Question

A fruit of vendor bought 144 oranges and packed them.in boxes. Some boxes contained 12 oranges and others 15 oranges. if there were more boxes containing 12 oranges each than 15 oranges each. calculate the number of boxes containing 15 oranges

Answer 1

Answer:

4

Step-by-step explanation:

Since it is mentioned that boxes of 12 oranges is more, its count must be greater than 6 as that equals half of 144 which is 72 (12*6)

then we need to check for a multiple of 15 after each iteration in the 12's math table to fit in boxes of 15 oranges.

12*7 = 84

144-84 = 60

15 *4 = 60

So the combination is

12*7 + 15*4 = 144