Question

The storage area in an art room has 24 separate bins. Each bin can hold 8 packs of markers, crayons, or colored pencils. Each pack holds 8 items. The art teacher has 240 markers, 320 crayons, and 336 colored pencils. How many empty bins will the art teacher have once all of the markers, crayons, and pencils are put away?

Answer 1

In order to find the number of empty bins, let's calculate how many packs will be made with the given material.

240 markers can be organized in 240/8 = 30 packs

320 crayons can be organized in 320/8 = 40 packs

336 colored pencils can be organized in 336/8 = 42 packs

In total we have 30 + 40 + 42 = 112 packs

Each bin can hold 8 packs, to in order to hold 112 packs, we need 112/8 = 14 bins.

We have 24 bins. Since 14 will be used, we will have 24 - 14 = 10 empty bins.