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The homegrown Turkey farm is preparing their Thanksgiving shipment. In one container they can put 8 big turkey boxes or 10 small turkey boxes. They send 96 turkey boxes using more big boxes than small boxes. How many containers did they use?

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The correct answer is:

11 containers.

Step-by-step explanation:

We want 96 boxes total. Each container can hold either 10 small boxes or 8 large boxes. To solve this, we want to subtract multiples of 10 from 96 until we have a number that is divisible by 8. This is because we cannot have a fraction of a container full of either big or small boxes.

96-10(1) = 96 - 10 = 86; this is not divisible by 8.

96-10(2) = 96 - 20 = 76; not divisible by 8.

96-10(3) = 96 - 30 = 66; not divisible by 8.

96-10(4) = 96 - 40 = 56; this is divisible by 8.

This means there are 4 containers of small boxes, for 4(10) = 40 boxes, and 56/8 = 7 containers of large boxes, for 56 boxes. This is a total of 4+7 = 11 boxes for our 40+56 = 96 boxes.

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They used 11 containers. 7 containers contained 56 big turkey boxes while 4 containers contained 40 small turkey boxes. 56 is the largest number which is divisible by 8 when deducting 96 by 10. This method ensured that all the containers are shipped at full capacity.
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