The Mega Middle School cafeteria has small square tables that seat one person on each side. How many of these tables must be pushed together to make one long table that seats 18 people?
Each small square table seats 4 people, as there is one person on each side. To seat 18 people, we need to determine how many of these small square tables need to be pushed together.
Since each table seats 4 people, we divide the total number of people (18) by the number of people a table can seat (4):
18 / 4 = 4.5
Since we cannot have a fraction of a table, we round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we need to push together 5 small square tables to make one long table that seats 18 people.
To find out how many small square tables must be pushed together to make one long table that seats 18 people, we need to determine how many people can be accommodated at each table.
Since each side of the small square table can seat one person, the total number of people that can be seated at each table is 4 (one person on each side).
To calculate the number of tables required, we can divide the total number of people (18) by the number of people accommodated at each table (4):
18 people รท 4 people per table = 4.5 tables
Since we can't have half of a table, we need to round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we would need a minimum of 5 small square tables pushed together to make one long table that seats 18 people.
Each table seats 2 people. You need to seat 18.
You have two numbers. Do you think you should
add?
subtract?
multiply?
divide?
What is your answer?