Final answer:
Melissa can deal 6 cards to each of the 4 players, with 3 cards remaining undistributed.
Step-by-step explanation:
Melissa has 27 cards and wants to deal the same number of cards to each of 4 players.
To find out how many cards each player will get, we divide the total number of cards by the number of players.
27 cards ÷ 4 players = 6 cards per player with a remainder,
because 27 is not perfectly divisible by 4. So, each player will get 6 cards.
To find out how many cards will be remaining, we multiply the number of cards each player gets (6) by the number of players (4), and then subtract that number from the total number of cards.
6 cards/player × 4 players = 24 cards,
27 cards - 24 cards = 3 cards remaining.
Therefore, after dealing the cards evenly, there will be 3 cards left over that cannot be dealt out to the players.