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A company that makes play sets received 7000 screws that they can divide up and ship out with each play set it sells. Each play set will ship with 131 screws.

How many play sets can the company ship before ordering more screws?

How many screws will the company have left over after all those play sets are shipped out?

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Answer:

The company can ship out 53 sets before running out of screws.

The company will have 57 screws left.

Step-by-step explanation:

If the company has a set amount of 7000 screws that they are able to use and ship out with each set and there are 131 screws needed per set the company can make 53 sets. We know this by diving 131 into 7000 which gives us 53.4351145 sets that the company can make. If we muiltiple 53 by 131 (meaning 53 sets multiplied by 131 for every set having 131 screws) we get 6,943. Subrtracting this from 7,000 we get a total of 57 screws left over that were unable to be put into sets. Therefore, 53 sets will be made and 57 screws will be left.

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