Question

Meliza has 43 toys soldiers , she line them up 5 to fight imaginary zombies . How many of these row can she make? After making as many as two of 5 as she can , she put the remaining soldiers in the last row. How many soldiers are in that row

Answer 1

A. 8 rows.

B. 3 toy soldiers.

Explanation:

We are told that Meliza has 43 toys soldiers, she line them up 5 to fight imaginary zombies .

A. Let us find the greatest multiple of 5 from 43.

Multiples of 5 are: 5,10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45,..

We can see the greatest multiple of 5 from 43 is 40.

Let us divide 40 by 5 to find the number of rows that Meliza can make.

`\text{Number of rows with 5 soldiers in each row}=(40)/(5)=8`

Therefore, Meliza can make 8 rows of 5 from 43 toy soldiers.

B. To find the number of soldier in last row we will subtract 40 from 43.

`\text{Number of toy soldier in last row}=43-40=3`

Therefore, the number of toy soldiers in last row will be 3 soldiers.