52 pencils are put into boxes .7 in each box how many boxes are needed?
how many pencils will be left?
52 divided by 7 = ?
Pleasr
To find the number of boxes needed, we divide the total number of pencils by the number of pencils in each box.
Number of boxes needed = Total number of pencils / Number of pencils in each box
In this case, we have 52 pencils and 0.7 pencils in each box.
Number of boxes needed = 52 / 0.7
To simplify the division, we can multiply both the numerator and denominator by 10 to remove the decimal point:
Number of boxes needed = (52 * 10) / (0.7 * 10)
Now we can perform the division:
Number of boxes needed = 520 / 7
Dividing 520 by 7, we get:
Number of boxes needed = 74.2857...
Since we can't have a fraction of a box, we need to round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we would need 75 boxes.
To find the number of pencils that will be left, we can multiply the number of boxes by the number of pencils in each box and subtract it from the total number of pencils.
Number of pencils left = Total number of pencils - (Number of boxes * Number of pencils in each box)
Using the values we already have:
Number of pencils left = 52 - (75 * 0.7)
Number of pencils left = 52 - 52.5
Number of pencils left = -0.5
Since it is not possible to have a negative number of pencils, we can conclude that no pencils will be left after filling the boxes.