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a restaurant needs to buy 587 new plates. If each box has 22 plates in it, how many boxes will they need to buy

User Ken Paul
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Answer:they need to buy 27 boxes of plates.


Step-by-step explanation:I do not like expaining things.


User Jayasagar
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You can solve this problem by dividing 22 into 587.

587 / 22 = 26.68

Since you cant have .68 of a box, round it to 1. So 26.68 becomes 27.

The restaurant will need 27 boxes.


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