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An elementary school received a donation of 1,000 dollars.The school has 4 kindergarten classes and three classes each in grades 1 through 6.Can the money be divided equally among the classes

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4 kindergarten classes plus 3 for six grades is 4 + 18 and that's 22, and $1,000 cannot be divided equally, because 1,000/22 is 45.454545...
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Maybe....

add up all the classes and divide........:}
4+3*6=22
1000/22=45.45454545.......
NO, it cannot since it will be a repeating decimal

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