Question

Pupils contributed some money to help needy people. They bought twenty four 2-kg packets of flour, thirty six 1-kg packets of flour and fifty kilogram bag of sugar. The flour was packed in 500 g packets and the sugar in 250 g packets. Hominy people got both a packet of flour and a packet of sugar?

Answer 1

amount of sugar = 24(2) or 48 kg
number of bags filled with sugar = 48/.5 = 96

amount of flour = 36(1) or 36 kg
number of bags filled with sugar = 36/.25 = 144

So 96 will get a bag of each