Question

help... Reference books are for use in the library. There are 16 bookshelves for the reference books. After use, they need to be returned to a special collection box for shelving. If 128 reference books are in use and 84 reference books are in the collection box, how many reference books are on the shelf?

Answer 1

Your answer would be:
13.25

128 books in use + 84 books in the collection box =212 reference books on the shelf

212 books / 16 shelves =13.25 per shelf

Logically the answer 13.25 wouldn't make sense because you can't put a 25th of a book on a shelf, so that means you will need to put the "0.25 book" away. Technically your answer would be 13. Due to the question, however, it would be 13.25.

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