Question

A container can hold three orange slices. If a company had twenty-six orange slices to put into containers, how many more slices would they need to fill up the last container?

Answer 1

To fill up the last container with the remaining orange slices, the company would need 1 more slice.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many more slices the company would need to fill up the last container, we need to find the remainder when dividing the total number of orange slices by the capacity of the container. In this case, the container can hold 3 orange slices and the company has 26 orange slices. So, the remainder would be the difference between the total number of orange slices and the product of the number of filled containers and the capacity of each container.

In this case, the number of filled containers is obtained by dividing the total number of orange slices by the capacity of each container (26 / 3 = 8). So, the company would need 8 filled containers to store the 24 orange slices. The remaining 2 orange slices would need an additional container to fill up the last container. Therefore, the company would need 1 more slice to fill up the last container.

Answer 2

The last container needs one more slice to be filled up.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question, we know that only 3 oranges can fit into a container.

However, the company has 26 oranges that need to be inside containers.

We can find out the number of containers that will be filled up completely and the remainder left.

We will do this by dividing the number of orange slices available by the number that can fit into a container.

This is 26 / 3 = 8 remainder 2

Therefore, 8 containers will be filled up, with only two oranges left in the last container.

Remember that each container needs up to 3 oranges to be filled up. Since the last container has only 2 orange slices in it, it needs one more slice to be filled up.