Question

Bales each of 1 gross papers were made from two and a half
ream papers. How many dozen papers will remain ?
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Answer 1

Answer:

In modern times the ream has become standardised at 500 sheets and the quire at 25 sheets.

Answer 2

Answer:

The number of dozen papers that will remain is 8.

Step-by-step explanation:

A ream of paper is taken to be 500 sheets.

Therefore two and a half ream of papers  will give us a total number of sheets as  =  2.5 × 500  = 1250 sheets.

1 gross of paper will be equal to 144 sheets.

To find the number of gross of papers we will divide the total number of sheets by the number of sheets in a gross.

Number of gross of paper = $\frac{1250}{144}$ = 8 gross and 98 sheets.

Therefore 98 sheets will remain.

In each dozen of paper we have 12 sheets.

To find the number of dozens remaining we divide the number of remaining sheets with the number of sheets in a dozen.

Therefore the number of dozens remaining  = $\frac{98}{12}$ = 8 dozens + 2 sheets.

Therefore there will be 8 dozen of sheets and two more sheets remaining.

The number of dozen papers that will remain is 8.