Question

Mrs Larsen was making gift bags for the 6 students in her reading group. She wasputting little erasers in the bags. She had a bag of 20 erasers. How many erasers dideach student get?

Answer 1

Mrs. Larsen would give each of the 6 students in her reading group 3 erasers from her bag of 20. There would be 2 erasers remaining.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mrs. Larsen is making gift bags for the 6 students in her reading group and she has 20 erasers to distribute. To find out how many erasers each student would get, we need to divide the total number of erasers by the number of students. So, we calculate 20 erasers ÷ 6 students which equals approximately 3 erasers per student with 2 erasers left over.

However, since we cannot split erasers and each student should get the same number, each student would receive 3 erasers and there would be 2 erasers remaining. This extra could either be kept by Mrs. Larsen or distributed in some other manner. This provides a practical example of division with a remainder.