Questions: Each day a company used 2/5 of a box of paper. How many boxes would they have used after 4 days?

Solution Steps

To find out how many boxes of paper the company would have used after 4 days, we need to multiply the daily usage of paper by the number of days. The daily usage is given as a fraction of a box, so we multiply this fraction by the number of days to get the total number of boxes used.

The company uses \(\frac{2}{5}\) of a box of paper each day. This can be expressed as a decimal: \[ \text{Daily Usage} = 0.4 \text{ boxes} \]

To find the total number of boxes used after 4 days, we multiply the daily usage by the number of days: \[ \text{Total Boxes Used} = \text{Daily Usage} \times \text{Number of Days} = 0.4 \times 4 = 1.6 \text{ boxes} \]

Final Answer