Question

A school with 340 students produces trash that fills 1,190 tall trash cans per week. If each student produces the same amount of trash, approximately how many trash cans does each student fill per week, written as a decimal?

Answer 1

To determine how many trash cans each student fills per week, divide the total number of trash cans (1,190) by the total number of students (340), which equals approximately 3.5 trash cans per student per week.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks how many trash cans each student fills per week if a school with 340 students produces trash that fills 1,190 tall trash cans per week, and each student produces the same amount of trash. To find this, we need to perform a division where the total number of trash cans (1,190) is divided by the total number of students (340).

Performing the division gives us:
1190 trash cans ÷ 340 students = 3.5 trash cans per student

Therefore, each student fills approximately 3.5 trash cans per week.

Answer 2

3.5 trash cans

Step-by-step explanation:

I divided 1,190 by 340 and got 3.5 trash cans