Question

Mia has 4 horses and 11 apples. She gives each horse the same number of

apples, and she uses as many apples as she can. How many apples does Mia
give each horse? How many apples are left?
» Complete the equation.
11 : 4 =
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Answer 1

She gives 2 apples to each horse, and there will be 3 apples left.

Explanation:

We know that Mia has 4 horses and 11 apples

She gives each horse the same number of apples, such that she uses the maximum number of apples that she can.

If she has 4 horses and she gives the same amount to each horse (let's say that this amount is N apples to each horse)

Then she uses a total of 4*N apples.

Then if N = 1, she needs 4*1 = 4 apples.

if N = 2, she needs 4*2 = 8 apples.

if N = 3, she needs 4*3 = 12 apples.

But she has only 11 apples, so she can not give 3 apples to each horse.

Then the maximum number of apples that she can give to each horse is N = 2, 2 apples to each horse.

Now, we know that she has 11 apples in total, and she gives 2 to each of the 4 horses, then she gives:

4*2 = 8 apples.

The number of apples that are left are:

11 - 8 = 3

There are 3 apples left.