Question

There are 14 students making sculptures with craft sticks. There are 644 craft sticks in a box. Each student gets an equal number of craft sticks. Explain each step needed to determine the maximum number of craft sticks that each student can get.

Answer 1

46 craft sticks per student

Explanation:

The simplest situation would be that in which the available 644 craft sticks are evenly divisible by the number of students receiving them. If that's the case, all we have to do is to divide:

644 craft sticks

----------------------- = 46 craft sticks per student

14 students