Jaime bought a box of sweets. She divided 1/2 of the sweets equally into 5 cans and the other half equally into 6 jars. There were 42 sweets in 1 can and 3 jars altogether. How many sweets did she buy?

Answer 1

Let's start by finding out how many sweets Jaime put in each jar. We know that she divided half of the sweets equally into 6 jars, so each jar had:

1/2 ÷ 6 = 1/12

of the sweets.

We also know that there were 3 jars in total, so Jaime put:

3 × 1/12 = 1/4

of the sweets into the jars.

Now we can find out how many sweets Jaime bought. We know that she divided half of them equally into 5 cans, so each can had:

1/2 ÷ 5 = 1/10

of the sweets.

We also know that there were 42 sweets in 1 can, so the total number of sweets that Jaime bought was:

42 × 5 × 10 = 2100

So Jaime bought 2100 sweets in total.