Question

Fifty-three students are going on a field trip. the students are divided into groups of 6 students. how many groups of 6 students will there be? if the remaining students form a smaller group, and one chaperone is assigned to every group, how many total chaperones are needed?

Answer 1

53 / 6 = 8 remainder 5

8 groups of 6 students and 1 group of 5

total chaperones = 8 +1 = 9

Answer 2

Answer:

There will be 8 groups of 6 students, and the total of chaperones needed will be 9.

Step-by-step explanation:

As we are said that there are 53 students going on a field trip, and we have to divide them into groups of 6 students, we just calculate

$53/6=8.83$

wich means that we will have 8 groups of 6 students (taking the integer of 8.83), and that there is a remanent of 5 students (wich is smaller than 6). This last affirmation we can know by calculating

$53-(6*8)=53-48=5$

Finally we have 8 groups of 6 students each, and 1 group of 5 students, wich means that we have 9 groups in total, so if we have to assigne 1 chaperone to every group, we need a total of 9 chaperones.