Question

Ms. Park has stored all her pencils in 77 boxes with 68 pencils in each box. She now needs to repack them all into 68 new boxes. How may pencils will be in each new box?​

Answer 1

Ms. Park will have 77 pencils in each of the 68 new boxes after redistributing a total of 5244 pencils.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ms. Park initially has a total of 77 boxes with 68 pencils in each box. To find out how many pencils she has in total, we multiply the number of boxes by the number of pencils per box:

77 boxes × 68 pencils per box = 5244 pencils.

Ms. Park wants to redistribute these pencils into 68 new boxes. To find out how many pencils will be in each new box, we divide the total number of pencils by the number of new boxes:

5244 pencils ÷ 68 boxes = 77 pencils per box.

Therefore, each of the 68 new boxes will contain 77 pencils.