A farmer has 4 cartons of specialty eggs for sale. Each carton contains 12 eggs. If 2/3 of the eggs are brown eggs, what is the total number of brown eggs he has for sale?
2/3 * (4 * 12) = ____
Hi,
To solve this, you need to find out,
1. The total no of eggs (Let's say there are x eggs in total)
and then,
2. Out of all eggs(x), how much are brown eggs(Let's say there are y number of brown eggs)
To find the total number of eggs(x) you'll have to multiply the no of eggs in each carton by the no of cartons.
After that you can equate 2/3 of x(total no of eggs) , to the number of brown eggs.
Hope this helps! :-)
To find the total number of brown eggs, we need to calculate the quantity based on the number of cartons and the ratio of brown eggs.
First, we calculate the total number of eggs in all the cartons. Since there are 4 cartons and each carton contains 12 eggs, the total number of eggs is 4 * 12 = 48.
Next, we need to find the number of brown eggs. Given that 2/3 of the eggs are brown, we can calculate this by multiplying the total number of eggs by the ratio of brown eggs:
48 * (2/3) = 32.
Therefore, the farmer has a total of 32 brown eggs for sale.