Ben starts with a certain number of fruit chew packages, he puts 27 packages into each of 85 cases. he has 3 packages left. how many packages of fruit chews did Ben start with? explain how you know.
Answer : The number of packages of fruit chews Ben start are, 2298 packages.
Step-by-step explanation :
As we are given that there are 27 packages of fruits and there are 84 cases. In each case, there are 27 packages of fruits. So,
Total number of packages of fruit = \(27\times 84\)
Total number of packages of fruit = 2295
And, 3 packages are left. So, the total number of packages of fruit will be,
Total number of packages of fruit = 2295 + 3
Total number of packages of fruit = 2298
Thus, the number of packages of fruit chews Ben start are, 2298 packages.