Question

An auto transport truck holds 12 cars. A car dealer plans to bring in 1,006 new cars in June and July. If an auto transport truck is filled for each delivery, except for the last one, how many full truckloads are needed and how many cars will be in the last truck?

Answer 1

To find the number of full trucks we can do 1006 / 12. This gives us 83.8333. That is, 83 full trucks and a bit left over.
The bit left over is the answer to the second part, the last truck. 0.8333 is the same as 10/12, so the last truck will have 10 cars in it. If we didn’t know that fraction, we could find the answer by saying 12x83 = 996. 1006 - 996 = 10.

So the final answer is: 83 full trucks and 10 cars in the last truck.