Question

Question #1dda7

Answer 1

230

Explanation:

Each bag contains 12 bolts, so the total number of bolts is 12 times the number of bags.

Let's say we have `b` bags, and according to the problem above, all of these bags combined have a total of 2760 bolts. Therefore, we can say that:

`12 xx b = 2760`

If we divide both sides of this equation by 12, we solve for `b`:

`(12 xx b)/color(red)12 = 2760/color(red)12`

`(cancel12 xx b)/cancelcolor(red)12 = 230`

`b = 230`

So the box contained 230 bags.