Question

Tim has 78 board games. He has 10 boxes. Each box holds 9 games. If Tim puts all the games he has into the boxes, how many more games can be fit? Complete the bar diagram and solve the problem.

Answer 1

It is given that Tim contains 78 board games and each box can hold 9 games.

The total number of boxes are 10.

1 box hold 9 games .

Therefore , 10 boxes hold 90 games.

Hence the number of extra games that can fit is

`90-78=12`

Completing the bar diagram.