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Medicine is packed in boxes, each weighing 4kg500g. How many such boxes can be loaded in a van which cannot carry beyond 800kg.


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Solution

Step 1. Step convert all weight in grams.

1kg=1000g4kg500g=4500g

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Maximum limit of the van which carries the boxes 4kg500g is 800kg=800000g.

Step 2. Calculate the number of boxes that the van can carry.

No.ofboxes=max.weightlimitofthevanweightofeachboxNo.ofboxes=800000gm4500gmNo.ofboxes=177.8

Hence, the number of boxes that the van can carry is 177.


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