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Jack is moving houses and needs to pack 38 books into small boxes. He packs 6 books in each box. How many books do not fit into boxes?
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Jack is moving houses and needs to pack 38 books into small boxes. He packs 6 books in each box. How many books do not fit into boxes?

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jack has 38 books, we can take then as 36 books +2 books, we can divide the first group of books(36) by 6, which is the number of books that each box can hold, then the other 2 books don't fit in a box, since they are just 2

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