Question

Mrs. williams is organizing her office supplies. there are 3 open boxes of paper clips in her desk drawer. each box has 7/8 of the paper clips remaining. how many boxes of paper lips are left?

Answer 1

To calculate the number of boxes of paper clips Mrs. Williams has, we simply multiply the number of open boxes to the remaining paper clips per box. We calculate as follows:

3 boxes ( 7/8 paper clips per box ) = 2.625 paper clips remaining

Which means there are 2 boxes and 5/8 paper clips left. Hope this answers the question.