The weight of 12 boxes of nails is 22 pounds.
A word problem is a verbal description of a problem situation. It consists of few sentences describing a 'real-life' scenario where a problem needs to be solved by way of a mathematical calculation.
For the given situation,
The weight of a box of nails = 1 5/6
The weight of 12 box of nails is
⇒ [tex]12(1\frac{5}{6} )[/tex]
⇒ [tex]12(\frac{11}{6} )[/tex]
⇒ [tex]22[/tex]
Hence we can conclude that the weight of 12 boxes of nails is 22 pounds.
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