David’s company has to ship 2057 boxes of sprinklers. If a truck can hold 550 boxes, how many trucks does he need to ship all the boxes?
2057/550 = ?
round up to a whole truck ...
To determine how many trucks David needs, we can divide the total number of boxes by the number of boxes a truck can hold.
First, let's calculate the number of trucks needed by dividing the total number of boxes by the number of boxes a truck can hold:
2057 boxes ÷ 550 boxes/truck
Performing the division:
2057 ÷ 550 ≈ 3.74
Since we can't have a fraction of a truck, we need to round up to the nearest whole number because we cannot have fractional trucks. Therefore, David needs 4 trucks to ship all the boxes.