The manager of a bookstore ordered 480 copies of a book. The manager paid a total of $7,440 for the books. The books arrived at the store in 5 cartons. Each carton contained the same number of books. A worker unpacked books at a rate of 48 books every 2 minutes. The manager unpacked books at a rate of 54 books every 3 minutes. How many books were in each carton?

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Kallie Matthews

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5 January, 18:50

The manager of a bookstore ordered 480 copies of a book. The manager paid a total of $7,440 for the books. The books arrived at the store in 5 cartons. Each carton contained the same number of books. A worker unpacked books at a rate of 48 books every 2 minutes. The manager unpacked books at a rate of 54 books every 3 minutes. How many books were in each carton?

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Alvin Forbes · Answer 1

There are lots of given in this certain item and we are to note that other given are just there to distract us. In order to answer the question, what we really need from the given is that there are 480 copies of books and they arrived in 5 cartons. To determine the number of books in each carton, we just have to divide 480 by 5 which gives us an answer of 96.