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HELP ME, 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 nee…

HELP ME, 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 nee…
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HELP ME, 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?

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Answer: They will need 4 crates.
250 boxes per crate, so:
875/250 = 3.5
You round up to 4 because you can’t have half a crate, and rounding down would leave out some of the boxes. So you need 4 crates to ship 875 boxes
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