Question

A florist divided 147 roses into bunches of 6. She had some roses left over, so she combined them with carnations to get a total of 6 flowers. How many carnations did she use?

Answer 1

Answer:

3 carnations.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have been given that a florist divided 147 roses into bunches of 6. She had some roses left over.

Let us find the number of leftover roses by taking the largest multiple of 6 out of 147 or finding the remainder of 147 divided by 6 as:

 6)147( 24

    12

      27

      24

        3

Since remainder is 3, so florist had 3 roses leftover.

We are also told that she combined the leftover roses with carnations to get a total of 6 flowers.

To find the number of carnation used by florist we will subtract number of roses from combined number of flowers.

$\text{Carnation}=\text{Combined flowers}-\text{Roses}$

$\text{Carnation}=6-3$

$\text{Carnation}=3$

Therefore, the florist used 3 carnations.