Jane is helping the librarian stack books on some new shelves. She is to stack 116 books on 16 shelves. The librarian told her t

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Jane is helping the librarian stack books on some new shelves. She is to stack 116 books on 16 shelves. The librarian told her t

o put the same number of books on each of the 16 shelves. Describe a different way that Jane can use to determine the number of books she should put on each shelf.

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I am Lyosha [343] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-04T05:02:19+03:00

Answer: The number of books she should put on each shelf = 7

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: Total books = 116

Total shelves = 16

To determine : The number of books she should put on each shelf, we first divides the total number of books by the total shelf.

$116\div 16=7\dfrac14$

So she can put 7 books in each shelf such that (7x16=) 112 books got placed and (116-112=)4 books left.

Hence, The number of books she should put on each shelf = 7.