Question

A store owner bought a large box of 5,135 paper clips. He wants to repackage the paper clips into 18 smaller boxes. Each box should contain about the same number of paper clips. About how many paper clips should the owner put into each box

Answer 1

We have been given that a store owner bought a large box of 5,135 paper clips. He wants to repackage the paper clips into 18 smaller boxes. Each box should contain about the same number of paper clips.

Let us find number of paper clips that store owner should put in each box by dividing total number of paper clips by number of smaller boxes.

`\text{ Number of paper clips in each box}=(5135)/(18)`

Upon dividing 5135 by 18 we will get,

`\text{ Number of paper clips in each box}=285.2777`

Now we will round our answer to nearest integer. Therefore, store owner should put 285 clips in each box.