Question

A pantry has 56 cans of vegetables and 74 cans of soup. each shelf in the pantry can hold 9 cans. will all the cans of soup fit evenly on the shelves? how many shelves will be needed? is there a remainder?

Answer 1

To determine how many shelves are needed to hold all cans of soup and if there will be a remainder, divide the total number of cans of soup by the number of cans that can fit on each shelf.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine whether all the cans of soup will fit evenly on the shelves, we need to divide the total number of cans of soup by the number of cans that can fit on each shelf. If each shelf can hold 9 cans, we divide 74 (the number of cans of soup) by 9. The quotient is 8 with a remainder of 2. This means that 8 shelves will be needed to hold all the cans of soup, and there will be 2 cans left over that won't fit on any shelf.

Answer 2

130 cans in total
The cans of soup can't fit evenly on the shelves. 74÷9= 8.2
You would need 9 shelves.
For the cans of vegetables you would need 7 shelves because 56÷ 9 = 6.2
But all together if you divide 130 by 9 you would get 14.4
Then you would only need 15 shelves.