Question

Each teacher can order 3 boxes of pencils for the school year. If 3 boxes together hold 82 pencils how many are in each box? If each class has 22 students, how many pencils can each student expect to receive for the year? How many are left over?

Answer 1

There are 27 & 1/3 pencils in each box. Each student will get 3 pencils per year. There will be 16 pencils left over.

Answer 2

Each student gets one pencil and there are 16 pencils left over.