Question

Gerald works at a warehouse that ships products to various grocery stores. He has 230 boxes of oatmeal to ship. If Gerald can place 12 boxes of oatmeal into a crate, what is the minimum number of crates he will need in order to ship every box of oatmeal?​

Answer 1

20

Explanation:

He only can put 12 boxes in 1 crate to ship 230 boxes of oatmeal the least number of crates he can use is 20 because 20 crates would= up to 240 boxes.

He can't do 19 boxes because he is short he would then only have 228 boxes and that is 2 short.

But if he does 20 crates he would be good for what needs and just have 10 more extra.

My calculations.

2 0

1 2

____

4 0

2 0 0

+

_________

2 4 0

This is saying he had 20 crates and use x as number of boxes for example each 1 crate could ship x amount of boxes and x is representing 12 boxes per crate and since he has 20 crates what is 20 x 12= x( the number of boxes total(240 boxes)

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Answer 2

Hello there! :)

Answer:

20 crates

Explanation:

Since he has 230 boxes and each crate can have up to 12 boxes, we can divide 230 by 12 to see how many crates will be needed:

`\boxed{(230)/(12) }`

Let's do long division to solve this:

we have the equation 230 ÷ 12

__________

12 | 2 3 0



__0_______

12 | 2 3 0

-0

2 3



__0__1____

12 | 2 3 0

-0

2 3

-1 2

1 1 0



__0__1__9_

12 | 2 3 0

-0

2 3

-1 2

1 1 0

-1 0 8

0 0 2

So, as we can see, the quotient is 19 but we have a remainder of 2, which means that, from the 230 boxes, 228 fits into 19 crates and 2 boxes are left. This means that we will need one extra crate to put these 2 boxes.

So, in total, he will need 20 crates.



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