Question

A pound of popcorn is popped for a class party. The popped corn is put into small popcorn boxes that each hold 120 popped kernels. There are 1,600 kernels in a pound of unpopped popcorn. If all the boxes are filled except for the last box, how many boxes are needed and how many popped kernels are in the last partially filled box?

Answer 1

13 of the boxes would be entirely filled, so 14 boxes would be needed in total. There would be 40 popped kernels in the last box.

Answer 2

1600 / 120 = 13.3
You will need 14 boxes.

120 x 0.3 = 36
There were 36 kernels in the partially filled box.