Question

The owner of a music store received a shipment of 1,532 guitar picks.The picks came in 37 boxes.The same number of picks were in 36 of the boxes.How many picks were in the remaining boxes?

Answer 1

Answer:

20

Step-by-step explanation:

1532/36 = 42.5556

round that down to 42

42 * 36 = 1512

1532 - 1512 = 20

Answer 2

1532 guitar picks divided by 37 is 41.4(and some change)! Let’s round down to 41, bc we can’t have part of one guitar pick. So assuming 36 of the boxes have 41 picks in each box, we will then do 41 multiplied by 36, which equals 1476 guitar picks. Let’s take that total from the 36 boxes and subtract it from the grand total number of guitar picks so 1532-1476, the sum is 56. From all of that we know that the last box or box 37 has 56 guitar picks in it!