Biscuit Factory

Algebra Level 1

A biscuit pack weighs 250 grams.
How many kilograms is the weight of 8 biscuit packs?

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The answer is 2.

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29 solutions

Dinesh Grover
Nov 20, 2014

250 * 8 = 2000 and 1000 gram = 1 kilogram so answer should come 2

The weight of 1 biscuit packet is 250 gms, hence the weight of 8 packs is 250 × 8 =2000 gms. Since 100 gms = 1 kg, 2000 gms = 2000 ÷ 100 = 2 kgs : )

The answer is correct, though the setup isn't. Unfortunatly that's not a way to get the solution. There are 1000 G in 1 KG, NOT 100. The reason you got the correct answer is because you divided incorrectly. 2000/100 = 20, not 2.

Shehruz Khan - 6 years, 6 months ago

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Oops....sorry. It is a typo.

Aishwarya Nagendra - 6 years, 3 months ago

You are an idiot

Isaac Backhouse - 6 years ago
Nada Marcha
Nov 20, 2014

250g=0,25kg

0,25kg x 8 = 2kg

Just a typo, you have written 0.25 kg as 0,25 kg. @Nada Marcha

Anuj Shikarkhane - 6 years, 6 months ago

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I think that's the european way of writing it

Aryan Gaikwad - 6 years, 3 months ago

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I don't think so Aryan.

Kartikay Kaul - 6 years, 3 months ago
Kinika Frank
Nov 30, 2014

250g =0.25kg 8 packs x 0.25 = 2kg

what is the right answer of this question. 2 kg IS it Wrong?

Mohammad Sualeheen - 6 years, 6 months ago

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2kg is the correct answer.

Akshitha Chamala - 6 years, 4 months ago

250 grams so for one kilogram is 250/1000 because you need to find for one kg, = 0.25 therefore 0.25*8 is 2.00 kgs :D

Abdul Ali
Nov 22, 2014

Typically 250gm is 0.25 kg, thus 0.25x8 = 2.00 kg

Randy Bates
May 1, 2015

Multiple 250x8 divided by 1000

Tes Hart
Apr 30, 2015

250g x 8 = 2000g and 2000g = 2 kg

Chris Krepp
Apr 14, 2015

Kilo=1000. 250×8=2000 2000g=2kilograms

1 packet biscuit = 250 grams = 0.25 kg amout of pack = 8

so just 0.25 x 8 = 2kg

Kartikay Kaul
Mar 15, 2015

1000 g = 1 kg => 1g = 1/1000 kg. Now 1 box weighs 250 g. 8 boxes will weigh = 8×250 g= (8×250)÷1000 = 250/125 = 2 kg

Alvin Avenido
Feb 19, 2015

1 pack = 250 grams

8 packs = ? kilograms

Now, 8 packs x (250 grams / 1 pack) = 2,000 grams

But then again, the problem asks for the value in kilograms!

Since 1 kilogram = 1,000 grams,

therefore 2,000 grams x (1 kilogram / 1,000 grams) = 2 kilograms

Akshitha Chamala
Jan 17, 2015

The weight of 1 biscuit pack is 250g,so the weight of 8 biscuit packs=250*8=2000g.1000g=1kg so 2000g =2000/1000=2 kg.

Guru Prasaadh
Dec 23, 2014

heh first of all update a question which says something like how in terms we should write the answer wither in grams or kilograms .

Mark Joy Llemit
Dec 4, 2014

250 grams is equal to 0.25 kg, then it says that there are 8 biscuit pack so 0.25 grams, so 0.25 kg X 8 =2 kg.

Bruno Feitosa
Dec 3, 2014

250 gramas pesa 1 pacote. 4 pacotes pesam 1 Kg. sendo assim 8 pacotes pesam 2 Kg.

Adshakir Ansari
Nov 30, 2014

250 gm x 8 = 2000 gm

1000 gm = 1 Kg

converted into Kg 2000/1000 = 2 Kg

Satyabrata Biswas
Nov 30, 2014

Wt. of 8 packets=8.250 gms=2000 gms=2 kg So number of kg is 2

Nancy Blachman
Nov 30, 2014

8 x 250 gram = 2000 grams x 1 kg/(1000 grams) = 2 kg

1 kg = 1000 grams

Sunil Kumar
Nov 30, 2014

1 biscut packet = 250gm.. therfore 8 packets= 250x8=2000gm=2kgm

Charles Gage
Nov 30, 2014

I tend to think of 250g as a "quarter of a kg." 8 quarters would be 2kg. Of course, in the USA we're still on English weights & measures. I don't know in the metric world whether people use or think of a "quarter of a kg" as I would think of a "quarter of a pound." Few would say in everyday conversation, "4 ounces," even though that is a "quarter pound." Or, do people simply say, "250g?"

No, yes... it´s ok both way´s, in Swedish :-)

mats klaesson - 6 years, 6 months ago

2.5 4=10-->2.5 8=20 and 250gr = 0.25kg --> 0.25*8=2 don't use calculator!

Jose Kj
Nov 30, 2014

250gm=.25kg; .25*8=2 kg

Sarath Kumar
Nov 30, 2014

8*250 = 2000gr=2kg

Shehruz Khan
Nov 29, 2014

In problems that deal with quantity, and conversion, such as this one, it doesn't matter which you convert first. You can convert the biscuit pack's weight directly to the unit you're looking for (G to KG). When 1000 G is equal to 1 KG, than 250 G will be equal to 0.25 KG. (You can solve this buy cross multiplication: 1000 G/1 KG = 250 G/x KG, then 1000x = 250 G) After you've found the KG mass of one biscuit pack, multiply it by eight to obtain the value of all 8 packs.

Zobayer Abdullah
Nov 22, 2014

8*250=2000
we know that,,,, 1kg=1000gm...... so ,2000gram=2kg

Math Man
Nov 22, 2014

btw, who added the picture?

justasking

Ashley Clegg
Nov 21, 2014

There are 8 packs OF 250 grams each, so you multiply 8*250. Divide this by 1000 to get the number of kilograms

Robert Haywood
Nov 21, 2014

250 8 = 2 , 000 250*8=2,000 grams

As an American, I had to use the old mnemonic King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk (KHDBDCM).

K is kilograms, so you have to move the decimal point from (KHDB.) to (K.HDB), which translates into (2000.) to (2.000), which is, quite obviously, equal to 2!

So 2 \boxed{2} is the answer!

Robert - I'm an American, too, but FAR older than you! I had never heard of the the King Henry mnemonic you mentioned! Back in the 1975 under the Carter administration, the "Metric Conversion Act" was adopted but we know how well that worked (it didn't) and eventually in 1982 the US Metric Board was disbanded under Reagan to save money and because it was apparently "ineffective."

Now, I travel frequently to Canada where they use an odd mixture of metric and English measures. It might be 25C outside but a child can have a temperature of 101F. A sheet of plywood is 4' x 8' but its thickness is measured in "mils."

I don't mind metric but there are some oddities to me. Temperature is not as precise. There is only 100 divisions between freezing/boiling point of water vs. 180 (212F minus 32F) with Fahrenheit.

The oddest to me is MPG - Miles Per Gallon. Instead of reporting how many miles (or km) I would get from a liter of gasoline, instead they report how many liters it takes to go 100 km. Why? Why would I ever want to know that? My gas tank holds 20 gallons. I get 25mpg. So, I can go 500 miles before I need to fill-up again. I don't buy an amount of gas based upon the distance of the trip. I fill up the tank every time. Therefore, I need to know range.

Anyway, I find that whole measurement rather odd by American standards.

Good luck - glad to see young people are involved in the Brilliant website!

Charles Gage - 6 years, 6 months ago

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I agree with you me neither want too know 100km, I want to know petrol by one metric mile= 10 km.

But I prefer metric standard (surprise...)

mats klaesson - 6 years, 6 months ago

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