Question

A summer camp is organizing a hike and needs to buy granola bars for the campers. The granola bars come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 12 granola bars and each large box has 18 granola bars. The camp bought 3 more large boxes than small boxes, which altogether had 264 granola bars. Determine the number of small boxes purchased and the number of large boxes purchased.

Answer 1

Answer:

3 small to 1 large box

= 18 bars to 12 bars

= 30 bars

so there 3 lots of 30 in 90

ratio becomes 3 x 18 to 3 x 12 ==  54 to 36

54 divided by 6 = 9 small

36 divided by  12 = 3 large