Question

Principal clements wants to buy a pencil for each of the 57 fourth graders in her school. The pencils come in packages of 6. How many packages does principal clements need to buy?

Answer 1

Principal clements needs to buy 10 packages

Solution:

Given that, Principal clements wants to buy a pencil for each of the 57 fourth graders in her school

The pencils come in packages of 6

Therefore,

Total number of students = 57

Thus, divide 57 by 6 to get the number of packages clements need to buy

$\text{Number of packages } = \frac{\text{total number of students }}{6}$

Substituting the given values we get,

$\text{Number of packages } = \frac{57}{6} \\\\\text{Number of packages }= 9.5 \approx 10$

Thus principal clements needs to buy 10 packages