SOLUTION: a company produces boxes of DVD's at a rate of 52 boxes per hour. They begin to produce boxes when they first open for the day and after three hours have 404 boxes in stock. how

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Question 1021248: a company produces boxes of DVD's at a rate of 52 boxes per hour. They begin to produce boxes when they first open for the day and after three hours have 404 boxes in stock.
how many boxes were in stock when they opened?

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In three hours, at 52 boxes an hour, they produce 3(52) = 156 boxes.
If they then have 404 boxes on hand, they must have had
404 - 156 = 248 boxes when the store opened.
Right?