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Clarksville Furniture needs to ship 97 couches across the country. If they can fit 7 couches in each truck, how many couches will be in the partially full truck? couches

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Answer:

There are 6 chairs are in the partially full truck

Explanation:

From the problem, we know that each truck will take 7 couches. This will happen up until the last truck, which will not have enough couches to fill it up.

Our job is to find out this remainder.

The first step is to divide 97 by 7 which will give us 13.857. However, we are not interested in the decimal points. We will just take only the whole number (13) and go on to the next step

For the next step, we will find the highest whole number multiple of 7 which is less than 97. This is where the 13 comes in. We can find this by multiplying 13 by 7 which is = 91.

We now know that 91 chairs perfectly fit into the trucks.

To find the number of chairs in the partially full truck, we subtract 97 - 91 = 6

There are 6 chairs are in the partially full truck

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