Pencils are sold in packages of 5.explain why you need 6 packages in order to have enough for 27 students.

If you only had five packages you would have 25 pencils which is not enough. You need at least six packages. If you have six packages, that is 30 pencils and 3 will remain after you give out 27.

The remainder is what is left over.

In division, why should the remainder not be greater than the divisor?

5 packages is notas enef so you need 6 to make 30 so you hace r3

Well, pencil math is a real sketchy subject, but let me try to paint you a picture. If pencils are sold in packages of 5, that means each package holds 5 pencils. Now, if you have 27 students and you want each student to have a pencil, you would need a total of 27 pencils, right?

Since each package only contains 5 pencils, if you divide 27 by 5, you'll get 5 with a remainder of 2. So, that means 5 packages would provide 25 pencils, but we still need 2 more to reach 27.

So, to make sure each student gets a pencil, you'd need 6 packages of pencils. That way, you'll have a total of 30 pencils, which is enough to cover the 27 students.

Now that's what I call sticking to the point!

In order to determine why you would need 6 packages of pencils to have enough for 27 students, let's break down the quantities involved.

We know that pencils are sold in packages of 5. So, each package contains 5 pencils.

Now, let's look at the number of students. There are 27 students in total.

To figure out the required number of pencils, we can multiply the number of students by the number of pencils each student needs. Since each student needs one pencil, we multiply 27 (the number of students) by 1 (the number of pencils per student). This gives us a total of 27 pencils needed.

Since each package contains 5 pencils, we can determine how many packages are needed by dividing the total number of pencils required by the number of pencils in each package. So, to find the number of packages needed, we divide 27 (total pencils) by 5 (pencils per package).

27 / 5 = 5.4

Since we cannot have a fraction of a package, we need to round up to the next whole number. Therefore, we need to purchase 6 packages of pencils in order to have enough for 27 students.