Question

Principal Corsetti is laying out 8 dozen bagles on square plates. Each plate can hold 14 bagles. How many plates will he have? Also, How many MORE bagles will be needed to fill the final plate with bagles?

Answer 1

One dozen is equal to 12.
So, if there are 8 dozen bagels then that means you must multiply 8 by 12.
8 multiplied by 12 equals 96.
You then divide 96 bagels by 14 plates. But because 96 divided by 14 is an improper fraction, you have to round down.
14 times 7 equals 98. So you need 7 plates and two more bagels to fill the last plate

Answer 2

8 dozen bagels means he has 8 x 12 = 96 bagels.
If each plate holds 14 bagels, then (96 bagels) / (14 bagels / plate) = 6.857 plates.
You can't have 0.857 of a plate, so you have to round up to 7 plates.
If there are 7 plates, and 6 of them are full, then the first 6 plates have: (6 plates) x (14 bagels / plate) = 84 bagels.
Remember Corsetti had 96 bagels total, so (96 bagels) - (84 bagels) gives us the number of bagels on the last plate, which is 12.
Since each plate can hold 14, and we only have 12 on the last plate, it would take two more bagels to fill the final plate with bagels.