Question

A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into ​

Answer 1

CORRECT QUESTION -

A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping. In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes, how many cartons did he ship?

ANSWER -

Let’s just take a guess and say that he had 56 large boxes and 40 small boxes.

56+40=96

and there are more large boxes than small ones. this way he has shipped (56/8)+(40/10) cartons, which gives us the answer as 11 cartons.

Or we could say that this guy shipped 96 large boxes and 0 small boxes. that too makes the number of large boxes greater than the no. of small boxes. this way he has shipped 12 cartons.

The first one is more probable, so the I’d say the no. of cartons is 11.