Question

Someone please help. There are 1,242 souvenir paperweights that need to be packed in boxes. Each box will hold 14 paperweights. How many boxes will be needed?

Answer 1

Answer:

89 boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

All we need to do is divide 1242 by 14 to find out how many boxes we will need:

1242/14=88.71

Since we can't have .71 of a box and if we have 88 boxes it would be too little, we need 89 boxes to hold all the paperweights.

Answer 2

Answer: 89

Step-by-step explanation:

SInce there is 1242 paperweights and we know that each box will hold 14 we can divide them to find how many boxes will be needed.

$\frac{1242}{14} = 88\frac{10}{14}$

Since you can't have $\frac{10}{14}$ of a box we will need to add one more to the 88

88+1=89