Question

A public School district furnishes pencils to its elementary school. The pencils the secretary orders from the district warehouse each year are packaged in boxes that contain one gross (12 dozen). The average use of pencils is 9.3 pencils per student. If the school's enrollment is 812 students, what is the minimum number of boxes of pencils that should be ordered?

Answer 1

The minimum number of boxes of pencils to be ordered is 630 boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since a pupil uses averagely 9.3 pencils

and a box contains 12 pencils,

the school enrollment is also 812

school's enrollment x average use of pencil per student

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number of pencils in a box

812 x 9.3 = 7551.6

7551.6 /12 = 629.3

Having a total number of 630 boxes of pencils to be ordered.