It takes 6 inches of wire to make on large paper clip. If each box contains 100 paper clips, how many boxes of paper clips can be made from a 1500-foot roll of wire?

Question

It takes 6 inches of wire to make one large paper clip. If each box contains 100 paper clips, how many boxes of paper clips can be made from a 1500-foot roll of wire? 

Answer 1

1foot=12inches

length of wire required to make 1 box(100) of paper clips=6x100=600 inches

number of boxes of paper clips=(1500x12)/600=30