SOLUTION: Luke is helping to fill boxes for a canned-food drive. He has some total number of cans of food, and he can fit 25 cans into each box that he fills. Luke has already placed 325 can

Question 1183673: Luke is helping to fill boxes for a canned-food drive. He has some total number of cans of food, and he can fit 25 cans into each box that he fills. Luke has already placed 325 cans into boxes. Write an equation to find the total number of cans that Luke has to box.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Luke needs to fill some total number of cans into boxes. We do not know how many this is; we only know that he has filled 325 of these cans into boxes. No information given to find out what is still remaining to be filled.
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