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A school sore has 1200 pencils in stock , and sells an average of 24 pencils per day. The manager reorders when the number of pencils in stock is 500 . In how many days will the manager have to reorder ? Plz help me :(

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You have 1200 pencils and you order more when your down to 500

So take 1200 - 500 to find how many pencils will be sold before you reorder.
1200 - 500 = 700

Then you take 700 / 24 to find how many days until you reorder.
700 / 24 = 29.1666666666666... You have round up because on day 29 you will have 504 pencils left

So 30 days until the manager reorders
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