Derek had a square box lid and 10 marbles. He placed all 10 marbles along the inside walls of the lid and had an equal number of marbles on each of the four sides. How many marbles were on each side?
Put two in opposite corners, then two on each side. The corners ones touch two sides....resulting in three marbles on each side.
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I can't see how it is possible.
To find out how many marbles were on each side of the square box lid, we need to divide the total number of marbles (10) by the number of sides (4).
To solve this problem, we can use simple division:
10 marbles / 4 sides = 2.5 marbles per side
However, it's important to note that you cannot have half of a marble, so we need to consider the whole number of marbles on each side.
Since we can't have a partial marble, it means that each of the four sides of the lid has an equal number of whole marbles. In this case, we can conclude that there were 2 marbles on each side of the square box lid.