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2) A restaurant needs to buy six hundred fifty-eight new plates. If each

box has five plates in it, how many boxes will they need to buy?​

User CIAvash
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Answer:

131.6 or rounded 132

User Instein
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Answer:

131.6 rounded up to 132 boxes

Explanation:

All you have to do is divide the number of plates (658) by how many plates fit into a box (5). When you divide, you get 131.6, but because you can't buy 0.6 of a box, you need to round up.

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