A delivery truck is transporting boxes of two sizes: large and small. The large boxes weigh pounds each, and the small boxes weigh pounds each. There are boxes in all. If the truck is carrying a total of pounds in boxes, how many of each type of box is it carrying?Number of large boxes:
Number of small boxes:

First arrange the numbers in order from least to greatest. Then start crossing out numbers equally from each side until you get to just one number in the middle. In this case there were two remaining numbers so you add those two numbers and divide by 2 to get your answer. The answer is 2.75.