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A library has 7140 books each shelf can hold at most 19 books how many book shelves are needed

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Each shelf holds 375 books
User Marabu
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The answer is 376.

If you wanted to put 19 books on a shelf with 7140 books, you would have to divide the amount of books by bookshelves. If you do that, the answer is uneven, but it is best to have one more than one less to at least hold all of the books, making instead of the answer be 375.789474, it is 376.

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