Ursula bought 9 dozen gauze pads for the health office. The gauze pads were divided equally into 4 boxes. How many gauze pads are in each box?
A dozen = 12
Therefore 9 dozen pads equals 108 (9 x 12)
If you have a total of 108 pads and want to put them into 4 boxes you divide 108 by 4
(108/4)
Therefore there would be 27 pads in each box
Thank you, Sandra.
To find the number of gauze pads in each box, we need to know the total number of gauze pads Ursula bought.
Ursula bought 9 dozen gauze pads, and since there are 12 items in a dozen, we can calculate the total number of gauze pads by multiplying 9 by 12:
9 x 12 = 108
Therefore, Ursula bought a total of 108 gauze pads.
Next, we need to divide the total number of gauze pads by the number of boxes to find the number of gauze pads in each box.
Ursula divided the gauze pads equally into 4 boxes, so we divide 108 by 4:
108 ÷ 4 = 27
Therefore, there are 27 gauze pads in each box.