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Answer 1 · 2017-04-17T14:52:53

$112$ cans per month were sold.

In word problems such as this there is often a lot of information given.

Summarise it a bit at a time and calculate what you can from what is given:

$332$ boxes of cans. Each box had $24$ cans.

$rarr$ This means there were $332 xx 24 = 7,968$ cans in total.

There were green and black beans.

$4,272$ cans had green beans. the rest were black beans.

$rarr$ Therefore $7,968 - 4,272 = 3,696$ had black beans.

The black beans were all sold over $33$ months.

$rarr$ each month $3.696 div 33 = 112$ cans were sold.

In one calculation this would be:
$(332 xx 24 - 4272) div 33 = 112$