Question

a sporting goods company can ship 6 footballs in each carton. how many cartons are needed to ship 75 footballs

Answer 1

75 ÷ 6 = 12.5 round up to the next whole number... 13

Answer 2

13

Explanation:

Hello, I can help you with this

you can easily solve this by using a simple rule of three.

Step 1

Define

a sporting goods company can ship 6 footballs in each carton

6 footballs ⇔ 1 cartons

then,how many cartons are needed to ship 75 footballs?

75 footballs ⇔ x? carton

Step 2

do the relation and solve for x

`( 6\ footballs )/(1\ carton)=( 75\ footballs )/(x\ carton) \\\ 6\ footballs *x\ carton= 75\ footballs *1\ carton \\x\ cartons=(75\ footballs *1\ carton)/(6\ footballs ) \\x\ cartons=12.5 cartons\\x=12.5`

you can not use 0.5 cartons, so you will need 13 cartons

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