In a book closet, mathematics books are kept in stacks of 4. If each student carries no more than one stack, what is the least number of students needed to carry books for a class of 23? Is the answer five or six students?
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what is 23/4....5.6 so i count six students carrying four or less books.
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To find the least number of students needed to carry books for a class of 23, we need to divide the total number of books by the number of books each student can carry.
In this case, each student can carry no more than one stack of 4 books. Therefore, we'll divide the total number of books (23) by the number of books in each stack (4) to determine how many stacks need to be carried.
23 รท 4 = 5 remainder 3
So, there would be 5 full stacks and 3 additional books left over. Since each student can only carry one stack, we need at least 5 students to carry the full stacks. The one stack that remains after distributing the full stacks will require an additional student.
Therefore, the answer is six students needed to carry books for a class of 23.
To summarize:
- 5 students can carry the 5 full stacks (20 books in total)
- 1 additional student is needed to carry the remaining stack (3 books)