Question

a restaurant needs to buy 367 new plates in it, if each box has three plates in it, how how many boxes will they need to buy?

Answer 1

122remainder1 Because you have to do 3 divided by 367 which equals 122remainder1.

Answer 2

You need to divide 367 by 3 = 122.3 but you cant have .3 of a box so this needs to be rounded up to 123 as even though this will be more than the needed amount, it is the minimum amount needed.

To double check:

123 x 3 = 369.
So they will have 2 spare.