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3 A shopkeeper bought 775 kg of wheat. He wants to divide all the wheat into 8 bags of the same size. How much wheat can he store in 1 bag? How much will be left

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To answer this question, we need to divide 775kg of wheat by 8. This will represent the amount of wheat the shopkeeper will store in a bag (per bag). The remainder of the operation will be that left amount of wheat.

Then, we have:


\frac{775\operatorname{kg}}{8}=96.875\operatorname{kg}

Then, if the shopkeeper store 96kg of wheat into each bag - using an integer as the amount of wheat per bag - then we have:


8\cdot96\operatorname{kg}=768kg

Then, the remainder will be:


775\operatorname{kg}-768kg=7\operatorname{kg}

Therefore, we will have that 96kg of wheat can be store in a bag. The amount left will be 7kg.

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