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Question

A pet store receives a shipment of 9 boxes of cat treats. Each box is 30 inches high and has 26 bags of cat treats. Each bag has 42 ounces of cat treats. How many ounces of cat treats does the pet store receive in the shipment?

Answer 1

So the important thing is relevant information vs irrelevant. We have 4 pieces of info:

1. 9 boxes
2. 30 inches high boxes
3. 26 bags per box
4. 42 ounces per bad

We want how many ounces of cat treats so what information is important, the ounces in each bag is obvious, the numbers of bags, and how many boxes. The inches is information we have but we do not need.

So now we just do multiplication:

42 ounces per bag * 26 bags per box * 9 boxes = 9828 ounces