A shopkeeper keeps his stock of rice flour in 25-kg bags. He has 2 such bags to be packed into smaller packets weighing 6 kg and 1 kg. He wants to have the same number of 6-kg packets and 1-kg packets.
- How many packets of rice flour does he pack altogether?
- How much rice flour is left over?
(a)
Total mass of rice flour
= 2 x 25
= 50 kg
Mass of one set of 1 1-kg packet and 1 6-kg packet
= 1 + 6
= 7 kg
Number of sets
= 50 ÷ 7
= 7 r 1
Number of packets of rice flour
= 2 x 7
= 14
(b)
Mass of rice flour left over = 1 kg
Answer(s): (a) 14; (b) 1 kg