Question

a company has $6582 to give out in bonuses, An amount is to be given out equally to each of the 32 employees. how much will each employee receive, rounded to the nearest whole dollar? Show your work.

Answer 1

6582 dollars, divided equally amoung 32 employees.

Let's use multiplication to guess and get a close answer, it's a little easier than division:

32 x 100 = 3200 (but we need about twice this amount)

32 x 200 = 6400 (we still have 182 more dollars left over)

So now we know that each employee gets about 200 dollars, but let's get more specific.

Let's try 32 x 5, which equals 160. We can't "fit" any more in, because all that's left is 22 dollars.

We have 32 x 200 and 32 x 5, which together is 32 x 205 (= 6560) and the closest we can get to $6582 if we're splitting all of the money evenly.

Each employee should recieve $205.