Question

After the clothing drive had ended, volunteers placed the 2,000 other collected into 10 piles to go to ten different shelters. How many items were in each pile?

a) 200
b) 250
c) 300
d) 350

Answer 1

To determine how many clothing items go into each of ten piles, divide the total items, 2,000, by the number of piles, 10, to get 200 items per pile.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student's question is asking how to divide an amount of collected clothing items evenly among several piles. To solve this, we carry out a simple division operation. The total number of collected items, which is 2,000, should be divided by the number of piles, which is 10.

To find out how many items are in each pile, you would divide 2,000 by 10:

1. 2000 ÷ 10 = 200

Therefore, each pile would contain 200 items. The correct answer is option (a).