Question

An art teacher needs to cut 1,045 apples and 1,463 leaves from paper. Five apples and seven leaves can be cut from a sheet of paper. How many sheets of paper are needed? Write equations to find the unknown.

Answer 1

To find the number of sheets of paper needed, divide the number of apples by 5 and the number of leaves by 7. Since both calculations result in 209, 209 sheets of paper are needed to cut all the apples and leaves.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of sheets of paper needed, we need to determine how many sets of 5 apples and 7 leaves can be cut from the total number of apples and leaves.

We start by dividing the number of apples by 5. 1045 ÷ 5 = 209. So, 209 sets of 5 apples can be cut.

Next, we divide the number of leaves by 7. 1463 ÷ 7 = 209. From this, we can see that 209 sets of 7 leaves can be cut.

Since the number of sets of apples and leaves is the same (209), we need 209 sheets of paper to cut all the apples and leaves.