Question

Chelsea needs to put 514 drinking glasses into boxes. each box holds 6 glasses. how many boxes will chelsea need? explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

There are 514 total glasses. each box holds a total of 6 glasses.

514/6 = 85.66, rounding up, you would need 86 boxes.

Answer 2

Basically to determine the number of drinking glasses that Chelsea needs, use the proportion ratio given in the problem and either cross multiply or find a number that will multiply to give the number of boxes that Chelsea will need.


1 box = 6 glasses
? boxes = 514 glasses

(514 glasses * 1)/6 = ?
? = 85.6, so she would need about 86 boxes in total to store a total amount of 514 drinking glasses, assuming that a single box can store 6 drinking glasses.