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Leon has 1,353 bottle caps in his collection. He decides to divide them evenly among 47 boxes. How many bottle caps will Leon have left over?

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Final answer:

After dividing 1,353 bottle caps evenly among 47 boxes, Leon will have 39 bottle caps left over. Each box will contain 28 bottle caps.

Step-by-step explanation:

Leon has 1,353 bottle caps in his collection and wants to divide them evenly among 47 boxes. To find out how many bottle caps he will have left over, we perform the division of 1,353 by 47. This division gives us a quotient and a remainder. The quotient is the number of bottle caps per box, and the remainder is what Leon will have left over after evenly dividing the caps into the boxes.

To calculate this, we do the following: 1,353 ÷ 47 = 28 R 39. This means that each box will contain 28 bottle caps, and there will be 39 bottle caps left over after Leon has finished dividing them into the 47 boxes.

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