Question

There are 324 fifth-graders at Tubman

Elementary School. Each student and
32 adult chaperones will ride buses
on a class trip. Each bus can seat 48
people How many buses are needed?
Explain how to interpret the remainder.

Answer 1

8 buses

Explanation:

Find the total number of people going on the trip by adding the number of students and the number of chaperones:

Total number of people = Number of students + Number of chaperones

= 324 + 32

= 356

Divide the total number of people by the capacity of each bus to find the number of buses needed:

Number of buses needed = Total number of people / Bus capacity

= 356 / 48

≈ 7.42

Since we cannot have a fraction of a bus, we must round up to the nearest whole number, which means we need 8 buses.

The remainder of the division, 0.42, represents the fraction of a bus that would be needed to transport the remaining people if we had more than 8 buses available. In this case, since we do not have a fraction of a bus, we round up to the next whole number.