Question

The circus clown wants to share 13 balloons among 3 children. he wants to give each child the same number of balloons. how many balloons will each child get?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 10
d. 13

Answer 1

If we have to divide the balloons equally among the children, but we can, not can't, have leftover balloons, we can just divide the total number of balloons, 13, by 3 children.

13/3 = 4 1/3

We have 1 balloon remaining, but that's okay. We gave the maximum number of balloons to each child, which is:

4 balloons, or the answer B.