In order to give a souvenir table tennis ball to each participant in a youth table tennis tournament, a city recreation department needs to buy 48 white and 27 orange table tennis balls. Each box of table tennis balls contains 5 packages of balls and each package contains 2 white balls and 1 orange ball. If the balls are sold in whole boxes only, how many boxes of balls does the city recreation department need to buy?

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River Flynn

Mathematics

13 January, 22:47

In order to give a souvenir table tennis ball to each participant in a youth table tennis tournament, a city recreation department needs to buy 48 white and 27 orange table tennis balls. Each box of table tennis balls contains 5 packages of balls and each package contains 2 white balls and 1 orange ball. If the balls are sold in whole boxes only, how many boxes of balls does the city recreation department need to buy?

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Aspen Landry · Answer 1

Answer: 27

Step-by-step explanation: 48*2 divided by 2 per box which is 12

then 27*1 which is 27 ... then do 27-12 to get 15 then add four 3 to add to the one that comes in each box of orange balls