The audio-visual technician for a hotel ordered 4 boxes of microphone cords. there are 12 cords in each box. if there are now a total of 108 cords at the hotel, how many boxes of cords were there before the order?

 5 boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : The audio-visual technician for a hotel ordered 4 boxes of microphone cords.

There are 12 cords in each box.

Then, the number of cords in 4 boxes will be

If there are now a total of 108 cords at the hotel,  then the number of corfds were before the order : 108-48=60

Then, the number of boxes were in hotel before the order :-

Hence, there were 5 boxes of cords in the hotel before the order.

step-by-step explanation:

you can add the two numbers and divide the result by 2. or you can find the gap between the two numbers and add half of this to the smaller number.

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