A company can buy packages of 500 sheets of paper for $4. At that rate, how much paper can be bought for $2000?

Question

10,000,000 sheets of paper

2,000 sheets of paper

250,000 sheets of paper

2500 sheets of paper

Answer 1

To determine how much paper can be bought for $2000, first calculate how many packages of paper can be purchased with that amount.

Each package costs $4, so the number of packages that can be bought with $2000 is:

$$\text{Number of packages}=\frac{2000}{4}=500$$

Each package contains 500 sheets of paper. Therefore, the total number of sheets of paper that can be bought is:

$$\text{Total sheets}=\text{Number of packages}\times \text{Sheets per package}=500\times 500=250,000$$

So, for $2000, the company can buy 250,000 sheets of paper.

The answer is 250,000 sheets of paper.