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 1,4501 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

Let x be the no of boxes.

120x = 14501
x = 14501/120

Upon division the quotient +1 = The no of boxes required and 
The remainder is the amount of popcorn in the last box

No of boxes = 121 boxes
Kernels in the last box = 101 kernels