Question

Carl is boarding a plane. He has 2 checked bags of equal weight and a backpack that weighs 4 kg. The total weight of Carl's baggage is 35 kg.

Answer 1

This is a simple question on subtraction and division.

We want to find the weight of each checked bag.

The weight of the two checked bags is :

35 - 4 = 31 kgs

The checked bags have equal weights.

We thus divide this by 2 as follows :

31/2 = 15.5 kgs

= 15.5 kg is the weight of each checked bag.