There are 48 cans of soup in a crate. A supermarket had a delivery of 125 crates of soup.
The supermarket is running promotion on soup. If you buy 5 cans, you get one free. Each can costs 39p. How much will it cost to get 32 cans of soup
Since the promotion is "buy 5 cans, get one free," for every 6 cans, you only pay for 5 cans. Therefore, you need to calculate how many groups of 6 cans you need to get 32 cans.
32 cans / 6 cans/group = 5.3333 groups
Since you cannot buy a fraction of a group, you need to round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, you need to buy 6 groups of 6 cans, which is a total of 36 cans.
Now we need to find how many cans are left to buy without taking the promotion into account. 32 cans - 36 cans = -4 cans
Since you cannot buy a negative number of cans, we need to add it to the total number of cans you need to buy, which is 36 cans.
So you need to buy a total of 36 cans + 4 cans = 40 cans.
The cost of 40 cans of soup is 40 cans * 39p/can = 1560p.
However, we need to subtract the cost of the 4 free cans.
The cost of the 4 free cans is 4 cans * 39p/can = 156p.
Therefore, the total cost to get 32 cans of soup is 1560p - 156p = 1404p. Answer: \boxed{1404}.
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Apologies for the mistake. Let's calculate it correctly:
To get 32 cans of soup, you need to buy 30 cans at the regular price and get 2 cans for free (according to the promotion).
The cost of 30 cans at 39p per can is 30 cans * 39p/can = 1170p.
Therefore, the total cost to get 32 cans of soup is 1170p. Answer: 1170p.
To calculate the cost of purchasing 32 cans of soup, we first need to determine how many cans need to be purchased in total, considering the promotion of "buy 5 cans, get one free."
For every 6 cans, one can is free, so in each set of 6 cans, there are 5 cans that need to be purchased. We can divide the total number of cans needed (32) by 5 to find out how many sets of 6 cans are needed:
32 / 5 = 6 remainder 2
So, there will be 6 sets of 6 cans (equaling 36 cans) and an additional 2 cans left to purchase individually.
For the sets of 6 cans, there will be 6/5 times the number of sets equaling the number of cans purchased:
6 * 5 = 30 cans
For the remaining 2 cans, they will each cost 39p:
2 * 39 = 78p
Thus, the total cost of purchasing 32 cans of soup will be the cost of the sets of 30 cans plus the cost of the remaining 2 cans:
(30 * 39p) + 78p = 1,170p + 78p = 1,248p
Therefore, it will cost 1,248p to purchase 32 cans of soup.
To calculate the cost of getting 32 cans of soup, we will need to consider the number of crates required to reach that quantity. Since each crate contains 48 cans of soup, we can find the number of crates needed by dividing the desired quantity (32 cans) by the number of cans in a crate (48 cans):
Number of crates = 32 cans / 48 cans per crate = 0.67 crates (rounded to the nearest whole number)
Since we cannot buy a fraction of a crate, we will need to round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we will need to buy one crate of soup.
Next, we need to consider the promotion the supermarket is running. For every 5 cans purchased, we will get one can for free. This means that out of the 32 cans we want to buy, 6 cans will be free (one for every group of 5). So, we will actually need to pay for 32 cans - 6 cans = 26 cans.
To calculate the cost, we multiply the number of cans by the cost per can:
Cost = 26 cans * £0.39 per can = £10.14
Therefore, it will cost £10.14 to get 32 cans of soup with the given promotion.