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Madison is buying bananas for the eighth grade. Each bag holds 14 bananas. If there are 58 students total, how many bags of bananas will Madison need to buy if she wants to give one banana to each student?

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Answer:

5

Explanation:

if each bag has 14 bananas she will need 5 bags. 14 times 5 is 70 but if she got 4 bags it would be 56 bananas and that is not enough for each student to have 1.

User Randy Hall
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Answer:

5 bags

Explanation:

58 / 14 = 4.142

Round that up

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