A sporting goods company can ship 6 footballs in each carton. How many cartons are needed to ship 75 footballs? Explain how you did it?
75 / 6 = ?
13 cartoons , 12 cartoons will have 6 balls in them and the 13th one will have 3 balls inside them
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To determine the number of cartons needed to ship 75 footballs, you need to divide the total number of footballs by the number of footballs that can fit into one carton.
In this case, the sporting goods company can ship 6 footballs in each carton. So, to find the number of cartons, you divide the total number of footballs (75) by the number of footballs per carton (6):
Number of cartons = Total number of footballs / Number of footballs per carton
Number of cartons = 75 / 6
To calculate this, you can use long division:
```
12
_________
6 ) 75
72
________
3
```
After performing the calculation, you find that 75 divided by 6 equals 12 with a remainder of 3. This means that you would need 12 cartons to ship 72 footballs, and an additional carton to ship the remaining 3 footballs.
Therefore, to ship 75 footballs, you would need 13 cartons.