A candy company makes boxes of chocolates. Each box has 32 chocolates total. Of those 32 chocolates 14 of them have nuts. If there were enough boxes for a total of 608 chocolates, how many of them would have nuts

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Camila Singleton

Mathematics

5 March, 02:32

A candy company makes boxes of chocolates. Each box has 32 chocolates total. Of those 32 chocolates 14 of them have nuts. If there were enough boxes for a total of 608 chocolates, how many of them would have nuts

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Talia Haas · Answer 1

Answer: 266

Step-by-step explanation: This is a ratio problem. If there are 14 chocolates with nuts out of every 32 chocolates, you can use this as a ratio and set it up as a proportion.

(1) 14 chocolates w / nuts / 32 chocolates = n chocolates / 608 chocolates

(2) Solve for n: 8,512 = 32n; n = 266