Question

Lance wants to buy enough hot dogs for a reunion. There are 125 people attending the reunion. Lance wants everyone to have 1 hot dog at each of 2 meals.The hot dogs come in packages of 8. How many should he buy

Answer 1

32

Explanation:

Lance wants everyone to have 1 hot dog at each of 2 meals, then each person will get 2 hot dogs.

There are 125 people attending the reunion. Thus, Lance needs

`125\cdot 2=250` hotdogs.

The hot dogs come in packages of 8. Divide the number of needed hotdogs by the number of hotdogs in package to get the number of packeges needed:

`250:8=31\ r2.`

Then Lance should buy 32 packages