184 seventh graders are going on a field trip. There needs to be one chaperone for every four students. If a bus can hold 50 people, how many busses will they need for their trip? Explain your thinking.
184/4 = 46 chaperones
(184 + 46) / 50 = ?
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To find the number of buses needed for the field trip, we need to first determine the number of chaperones required, and then divide the total number of students and chaperones by the capacity of each bus.
Given that there needs to be one chaperone for every four students, we divide the total number of students by 4 to find the number of required chaperones. In this case, there are 184 seventh graders, so 184 divided by 4 gives us 46 chaperones.
To calculate the total number of students and chaperones, we add the number of students (184) to the number of chaperones (46), resulting in 230.
Now, to determine the number of buses needed, we divide the total number of students and chaperones (230) by the capacity of each bus (50). Since each bus can hold 50 people, dividing 230 by 50 gives us 4.6. However, as we cannot have a fraction of a bus, we need to round up to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, they will need 5 buses for their trip because rounding up 4.6 to the nearest whole number gives us 5.