Question

Sue and 4 friends buy a box of 362 baseball cards at a yard sale. If they share the cards equally, how many cards will each person get?

Answer 1

they each get 90 cards

Answer 2

The correct answer is 74.

Explanation:

First we must take into account that the total number of people who are going to distribute the cards are 5:

Sue + 4 friends.

In total we have 362 baseball cards, what we should do is a division:

If we have 362 cards and 5 people----- 362/5 = 72.4.

Since we cannot cut a card into 4 parts, then 72 cards correspond to each person and there are 2 left over.

If you have any doubts then you can make 72 x 5 = 360 ---- therefore there are 2 cards left over.