Hunter had a collection of 104 miniature cars. They were all mixed together in a box. He sorted them into egg cartons and labeled each carton. He put one dozen cars in each carton except for the last one. How many cars did he put in the last carton?
104/12=8
answer 8
I don't think 8 is right personally.
I think its around 7? I might be wrong, but they're asking for the amount of cars in the carton without a dozen cars. So 104/12 will just give u the amout of cartons u have.
To find out how many cars Hunter put in the last carton, we need to determine how many cartons he used and how many cars he initially had.
First, we know that Hunter had a collection of 104 miniature cars.
Next, he sorted them into egg cartons, putting one dozen cars into each carton except for the last one. Since a dozen is equal to 12, we can calculate the number of cartons he used by dividing the total number of cars by 12.
104 cars ÷ 12 cars/carton = 8.67 cartons
Since we cannot have a fraction of a carton, we round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, Hunter used 8 cartons.
Now that we know the number of cartons, we can determine how many cars were put in the last carton. We subtract the number of cars already placed in the previous cartons from the total number of cars.
Total number of cars - (Number of cartons - 1) × Number of cars per carton = Number of cars in the last carton
104 cars - (8 - 1) × 12 cars/carton = Number of cars in the last carton
104 cars - 7 × 12 cars/carton = Number of cars in the last carton
104 cars - 84 cars = Number of cars in the last carton
The number of cars Hunter put in the last carton is 20.