A department store had 64 boxes of cherries.

Question

A department store had 64 boxes of cherries. Each box had 80 cherries. The cherries were repacked into packet of 40. How many packets of cherries were there?

 

Please tell me the final answer.

Answer 1

64 boxes of cherries with 80 cherries per box = 64*80 cherries = 5120 cherries.

 

Repacking cherries at 40 cherries per box = 5120 cherries/(40 cherries/box) = 128 boxes.

 

 

Answer 2

Each packet had one-half the number of cherries in the original box. Therefore there shall be twice as many boxes, i.e., 128.