Question

Tyrone works in a grocery store and he puts boxes on shelves. There are 4 shelves in the cereal section of the store. All shelves hold the same number of boxes of cereal. If there are 80 boxes of cereal on the shelves, how many boxes are on each shelf? In complete sentence

Answer 1

Answer:

Each shelf can hold 20 boxes of cereal.

Step-by-step explanation:

Start with 80 boxes of cereal: (80)

There are 4 shelves for each box of cereal: (x/4)

Thus, we get the expression: 80/4=

(You may want to simplify this; giving you the answer of 20.)