At a potato chip factory there were 41 machines
working with each machine able to produce 72
chips a minute. if this is enough potato chips to
fill 3 shipping boxes, how many chips are there
per box? how do you know?

984 Chips per box

Step-by-step explanation:

41 x 72 = 2952 ÷ 3 (boxes) = 984

I got 984 chips per box. (I could be wrong)*

Step-by-step explanation:

My very un-detailed explanation: So you know that there are 41 machines in this potato chip factory and each machine can produce 72 chips every minute. And if this is enough to fill 3 shipping boxes, then the steps to solve this problem is as follows

1. 41x72=2954 I did this to find the total number of chips that all of the 41 machines make every minute.

2. 2954/3=984 I did this because we know that "2954" chips is the total amount of chips in 3 boxes so to find the amount of chips in each box, we would divide the total number of chips by 3.

arrange the equations with like terms in columns.

analyze the coefficients of x or y.

add the equations and solve for the remaining variable.

substitute the value into either equation and solve.

check the solution.

step-by-step explanation:

what i would say the best answer is a. 40.5