Question

A container can hold three orange slices. If a company had twenty-six orange slices to put into containers, how many more slices would they need to fill up the last container?

Answer 1

Answer:

The last container needs one more slice to be filled up.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question, we know that only 3 oranges can fit into a container.

However, the company has 26 oranges that need to be inside containers.

We can find out the number of containers that will be filled up completely and the remainder left.

We will do this by dividing the number of orange slices available by the number that can fit into a container.

This is 26 / 3 = 8 remainder 2

Therefore, 8 containers will be filled up, with only two oranges left in the last container.

Remember that each container needs up to 3 oranges to be filled up. Since the last container has only 2 orange slices in it, it needs one more slice to be filled up.