Question

There are 1,657 souvenir paperweights that need to be packed in boxes. Each box will hold 17

paperweights. How many boxes will be needed?
boxes will be needed to hold all the souvenir paperweights.

Answer 1

Therefore we can say that 98 boxes will be needed to hold all the paperweights.

Explanation:

i) there are 1657 souvenir paperweights that need to be packed in boxes.

ii) each box will hold 17 paperweights

iii) therefore the number of boxes that will be needed are

=
`\frac{total\hspace{0.15cm} number\hspace{0.15cm} souvenir\hspace{0.15cm} paperweights}{number\hspace{0.15cm} of\hspace{0.15cm} paperweights\hspace{0.15cm} per\hspace{0.15cm} box}` =
`(1657)/(17)` = 97.471

iv) Therefore we can say that 98 boxes will be needed to hold all the paperweights.