Question

A pet shop has 562 gold fish. They use tanks that hold up to 18 fish in each. How many tanks will he need to buy to fit all the goldfish?​

Answer 1

32

Explanation:

You have 562 gold fish and you need to have 18 in each tank, how many tanks do you need?

You first need to start with dividing the gold fish amount to the amount that can fit in each tank, (562 divided by 18 = 31.22222222222222). Then you multiply 18 by 31 and you get 558. This is obviously not as much goldfish as you had before, so to fix this you add another tank which makes 32 tanks, but you minus 562 from 558 and you have only 4 fish in the last tank.

Hope this helps! :)

Answer 2

32 tanks

Explanation:

since 562/18

is 31.222222...

You would have to round up because you the limit is 18 fish. You would need 32 tanks to fit all the fish