Lauren is baking dog biscuits to donate to her local shelter. She bakes 130 cookies and wants to package them in plastic bags. If each bag holds 8 biscuits, how many bags will she need to package all of the cookies? Is it 16 or 17 bags? Thanks
130/8 = 16.25
If she wants to bag "all" the cookies, there will be only 2 in the 17th bag.
To determine the number of bags Lauren will need, we can divide the total number of biscuits by the number of biscuits per bag.
Lauren has 130 biscuits, and each bag can hold 8 biscuits.
To find out how many bags she will need, we divide the total number of biscuits by the number of biscuits per bag:
130 biscuits รท 8 biscuits per bag = 16.25
Since we cannot have a fraction of a bag, we cannot have 16.25 bags. Instead, we have to round up to the next whole number.
Therefore, Lauren will need 17 bags to package all of the cookies, not 16. I hope this helps!