Q. The Johnson family has been very busy and has not done there laundry for several weeks. The dirty laundry pile consists 540 items of clothing. They figure they can put average of 27 pieces of clothing in a single load. How many loads if laundry will the Johnson family have to do to wash all the items of clothing?

A. Do I divide 540 / 27 and I got the answer of 20.

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20

To figure out how many loads of laundry the Johnson family will have to do, you are correct in dividing the total number of items of clothing (540) by the average number of pieces of clothing per load (27).

So, 540 divided by 27 equals 20.

Therefore, the Johnson family will have to do 20 loads of laundry to wash all the items of clothing.