The owner of a clothing store received a shipment of 1,230 pairs of socks. The socks came in 36 boxes. The same number of socks were in 35 of the boxes. How many pairs of socks were in the last box ?
5 pair
Since the same number of pairs are in 35 boxes, that's the number you should be using to divide into the 1,230 pairs...you get 35 with a remainder of 5. The remaining 5 are the number of pairs in the 36th box. Hope this helps you!
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5 trying out the answer
The answer is 5 ok
1230/35 = 35 1/7
1230-35*35 = 25
wait does the 36 do anything?
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To find out how many pairs of socks were in the last box, we first need to determine how many pairs of socks were initially received.
Given that there were 1,230 pairs of socks in total and they were distributed in 36 boxes, we can divide the total number of pairs by the number of boxes:
1,230 pairs of socks ÷ 36 boxes = 34 pairs of socks per box (on average)
Then, we're provided with the information that the same number of socks were in 35 of the 36 boxes. Since we know there were 34 pairs of socks on average in each box, we can multiply this number by 35 to find out how many pairs of socks were in those 35 boxes:
34 pairs/box × 35 boxes = 1,190 pairs of socks in the 35 boxes
Finally, to determine the number of pairs of socks in the last box, we subtract the total number of pairs in the 35 boxes from the total number of pairs originally received:
1,230 pairs of socks - 1,190 pairs of socks = 40 pairs of socks in the last box
Therefore, there were 40 pairs of socks in the last box.