UNIT 1 NATURAL NUMBERS

Prob 1. In a nursery they have 18 boxes of 50 roses ready for sale. How many boxes, equal to the
previous ones, are missing to cover an order of 100 dozen roses?

Prob 2. Alfredo saves €18 a week and already has €540 in his bank account. How many weeks
must he still wait to be able to buy a bicycle that costs €900?

Prob 3. Rafael and Marisa charge €140 for a job of mailing propaganda. Rafael has distributed 3
packets of brochures and Marisa 4 packets. How much money does each one get?

Prob 4. A tanker truck used to irrigate a park has transported 50,400 liters of water in 14 trips.
How many liters will it carry in 5 trips?

Prob 5. A fruit storekeeper buys apples for €22 a box and sells them for €2 a kilo. Knowing that a
box contains 15 kg. How many boxes does he have to sell to earn €600?

Prob 6. A truck carries 100 washing machines of 52 kg each. The price of each washing machine is
€372. How much does the truck load weigh? How much is the load worth?
Prob 7. A farmer has obtained 12,648 eggs from his hens over the course of a month. How much
money has he earned knowing that he sells them for €2 a dozen?

Prob 8. A farmer has two orchards. In the first he collects 34 boxes of apples and in the second 12
boxes. All boxes are 15 kilos. How much will he receive for the sale of his harvest if the apples are
paid at €2 per kilo?

Prob 9. A beverage vendor receives 3 boxes of 24 bottles each and 16 loose bottles every month.
How many bottles will they receive after a year?

Prob 10. A van carries 32 boxes. Each box contains 6 packs of 500 sheets. How many pages does
the van carry?

Prob 11. My mother has bought 36 kg of apricots to make preserves at 95 cents per kilo. But they
make a discount of 5 euros. How much will you have to pay?

Prob 12. An industry produces 717 plates daily. How many can he put up for sale after 65 working
days, if 416 plates are found to be defective?