Question

Gerald works at a warehouse that ships products to various grocery stores. He has 230 boxes of oatmeal to ship. If Gerald can place 12 boxes of oatmeal into a crate, what is the minimum number of crates he will need in order to ship every box of oatmeal?​

Answer 1

Answer:

20

Step-by-step explanation:

He only can put 12 boxes in 1 crate to ship 230 boxes of oatmeal the least number of crates he can use is 20 because 20 crates would= up to 240 boxes.

He can't do 19 boxes because he is short he would then only have 228 boxes and that is 2 short.

But if he does 20 crates he would be good for what needs and just have 10 more extra.

My calculations.

2 0

1  2

____

      4    0

 2    0  0

+

_________

2  4 0

This is saying he had 20 crates and use x as number of boxes for example each 1 crate could ship x amount of boxes and x is representing 12 boxes per crate and since he has 20 crates what is 20 x 12= x( the number of boxes total(240 boxes)

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Answer 2

Hello there! :)

Answer:

20 crates

Step-by-step explanation:

Since he has 230 boxes and each crate can have up to 12 boxes, we can divide 230 by 12 to see how many crates will be needed:

$\boxed{\frac{230}{12} }$

Let's do long division to solve this:

we have the equation 230 ÷ 12

  __________

12  |    2    3    0



     __0_______

12  |    2    3    0

        -0

         2    3



     __0__1____

12  |    2    3    0

        -0

         2    3

        -1     2

         1     1     0



     __0__1__9_

12  |    2    3    0

        -0

         2    3

        -1     2

         1     1     0

        -1    0     8

         0    0    2

So, as we can see, the quotient is 19 but we have a remainder of 2, which means that, from the 230 boxes, 228 fits into 19 crates and 2 boxes are left. This means that we will need one extra crate to put these 2 boxes.

So, in total, he will need 20 crates.



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