Question

A manufacturing company uses crates to transport boxes of supplies. two crates can hold 250 boxes. if the company needs to ship 875 boxes, how many crates will they need? 1) 3 2) 1 3) 7 4) 5

Answer 1

To solve this problem, you need to determine how many crates are needed to hold 875 boxes.

Since each crate can hold 250 boxes, you first divide the total number of boxes by the number of boxes each crate can hold, to find the number of crates needed.

So, 875 boxes divided by 250 boxes per crate equals 3.5 crates.

However, you can't transport half a crate, right? So you would round up to the nearest whole number, because even if a crate isn't fully packed, you would still need it to transport the remaining boxes. So rounding up 3.5 gives you 4 crates.

So, the company will need 4 crates to transport 875 boxes. Among the given choices, that would mean the correct answer is the one which says 4 crates.