Question

Ahmal is trying to estimate how many boxes he will need to store his miniature car collection in. He has 538 cars, and 27 cars will fit nicely into the boxes he wants to buy. Use the numbers below to fill in the best estimate of the number of boxes Ahmal will need.

Answer 1

To estimate the number of boxes Ahmal will need, we can divide the total number of cars by the number of cars that fit in each box.

Dividing 538 by 27 gives:

538 ÷ 27 = 19.93 (rounded to two decimal places)

This means that Ahmal will need approximately 19.93 boxes to store his miniature car collection. Since he can't buy a fraction of a box, he will need to round up to the nearest whole number.

Therefore, Ahmal will need 20 boxes to store his miniature car collection.