Answer:
12 boxes are needed
Last box contain only 20 kernels
Step-by-step explanation:
It is given that,
a pound of popcorn is popped for a class party.
The popped corn is put into small popcorn boxes that each hold 130 popped kernels.
There are 1450 kernels in a pound of unpopped popcorn.
If all the boxes are filled except for the last box,
To find the number of boxes
number of boxes = Total number of kernels/Number of kernel in each box
= 1450/130 = 11 2/13
Therefore total number of boxes = 11 + 1 =12 boxes
number of kernels in 11 boxes = 11x 130 =1430 kernels
So last box contain = 1450 - 1430 = 20
Last box have only 20 kernels
Answer: 12 boxes.
20 kernels in the last box.
Step-by-step explanation:
Hi, to answer hits question, first we have to divide the total number of kernels in one pound (1450) by the number of kernels that each box holds (130).
Mathematically speaking
1450 /130 = 11.15 boxes
This means that 11 boxes can be fully filled, and one box will be not be fully filled.
11+1 = 12 boxes needed
So, the 12th box is no fully filled
11.15boxes -11 full boxes =0.15 =15% filled
Since each box holds 130 kernels, we have to multiply that value by how much the last box can hold (15% in decimal form).
130 x 15/100 = 19.5 ≅ 20 kernels
In the last box there are 20 kernels
