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Omar has 24 camival ride tickets and it takes 5 tickets to ride the roller coaster how many times can he ride the ride and how many tickets will have left over

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Answer:

Omar can ride the roller coaster 4 times and will have 4 tickets leftover.

Explanation:

For a more simple problem like this, long division is not necessary.

You may have learned the technique of finding how many times a divisor can "go in" to the dividend.

In this case, 5 (the cost of riding the coaster) can go into 24 (the amount Omar has) 4 times, because 5, 10, 15, 20. However, going in one more time puts us at 25, which Omar does not have, so 5 can only go into 24 5 times.

Since there is still 4 tickets leftover, Omar can ride the coaster 4 times, and will have 4 tickets left.

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