Question

The favorite ice cream bar of a family of four is packaged as 6 ice cream bars per box. The mother of the family wants to buy enough boxes of ice cream bars so that she can share the ice cream bars equally with all the members of the family, and there will be no extra ice cream bars left over. (a) What is the least number of boxes of ice cream bars she can purchase to achieve her goal? (b) How many ice cream bars will each family member receive? (c) Please explain how to solve the problem

Answer 1

Explanation:

If the mother wants to get the amount of ice cream bars that will not contain any leftovers for her family of four, the least amount of boxes the mother could purchase to receive her goal is 2 boxes

MATH-

1 box= 6 bars

2 boxes= the bars(6)x2, which is equal to 12 ice cream bars

If you split 12 evenly between the members of her family which is 4 people,

12÷4=3 or 4x3=12

each family member would receive 3 ice cream bars each.

Answer 2

She would have to buy 2 boxes and each person would get 3 because 3x4=12 and two boxes would be 12