Question

Alonzo and Mindy are buying pretzels to share with their class. They will put all the pretzels into bags. Alonzo buys 8 pretzels. Mindy buys 3 times as many pretzels as Alonzo. Each bag will hold up to 5 pretzels. Alonzo and Mindy want to know the least number of bags they need to hold all the pretzels. Choose from the drop-down menus to correctly complete each statement. Alonzo and Mindy have a total of pretzels. Alonzo and Mindy need bags to hold all of the pretzels.

Answer 1

Answer: They'll need 7 bags, but the 7th bag will only have 2 pretzels. They have a total of 32 pretzels.