Question

A soccer store can ship 7 soccer balls in each box. How many boxes are needed to ship 81 soccer balls?

Answer 1

The 81 balls need to be split into some number of boxes. To figure out how many boxes, we can divide the 81 balls by the 7 ball capacity of a single box.

81/7 = 11.571

This means that we will need 11 full boxes, but there will be a remainder of balls which did not fit. Since we can't have a fraction of a box, we need to round up to 12 boxes to hold all 81 balls.

The answer is 12 boxes.