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The carnival committee has purchased

985 small prizes. The prizes are to be!

divided equally among the 20 game

booths.

A. In what place will the first digit of the

quotient be?

B. How many prizes will each booth

have?

C. How many prizes will be left?

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A) In what place will the first digit of the quotient be?

First, we divide 985 by 20, which equals 49.25 - this means that the first digit of the quotient is in the tenths place.

B) How many prizes will each booth have?

Since we know that 985 divided by 20 is 49.25, and that booths cannot have one quarter of a prize, each booth will have 49 prizes.

C) How many prizes will be left?

If each booth has .25 of a prize leftover, and there are 20 booths, we can multiply .25 x 20 to figure out that there will be 5 prizes left.

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