Question

When her shop was getting renovated, Farah found 34 packets of cashew nuts each weighing 250 g and also 1350 g of loose cashew nuts. She wants to repack the whole cashews into new packets weighing 150 g each. How many such packets can be made? How much cashew nuts will be left out?

Answer 1

To find the total weight of cashew nuts, we need to get multiply 250 g into 34 packets and then add 1350 g to the result.

Total weight = 250 $\times$ 34 +1350 = 8500 + 1350 = 9850 g

To find the number of packets weighing 150 g each, we need to divide 9850 by 150.


$$\begin{array}{c}65\\ 1509850\\ -\underset{–}{900}2\\ 850\\ -\underset{–}{750}\\ 100\end{array}$$Thus, we have a quotient of 65 and a remainder of 100.
So, Farah can make 65 packets of 150 g cashew nuts and then 100 g will be left out.