Question

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

Answer 1

Weight of $1$ medicine box$=4kg500g$

$=4kg+500g$

$=4\times 1000+500=4000+500=4500$ gm

Total capacity of truck $=800$ kg

$=800\times 1000$ gm (since $1$kg$=1000$ gm)

$=8,00,000gm$

Number of boxes can be loaded$=\frac{Totalweight}{weightof1box}$

$=\frac{8,00,000}{4500}\approx 177$

$\therefore$ Number of boxes$=177$