Question

Medicine is packed in boxes, each weighing 4 kg 500 g. How many such boxes can be loaded in a van which cannot carry beyond 800 kg?

Answer 1

The weight of one box = 4 kg 500 g

1 kg = 1,000 g
= $4\times 1000g+500g=4,500g$
Maximum load can be loaded in the van = 800 kg
= $800\times 1,000g=8,00,000g$
Number of boxes =$8,00,000÷4,500$



Therefore, 177 boxes can be loaded. But the van can also carry 3,500 g or 3.5 kgs more after the 177 boxes are loaded.