Question

Alex collected 2,876 golf balls over 8 hours of diving. She collected an equal number of balls every hour. How many golf balls per hour is that? What is the remainder?

Answer 1

Alex collected 359 golf balls each hour and 4 balls were remaining as remainder.

Explanation:

Given:

Total golf balls collected =2876

Number of hours = 8 hours.

We need to find the number of golf balls collected in per hour.

And what is the remainder.

Solution:

In 8 hours = 2876 balls collected

1 hour = Number of golf balls collected in 1 hour.

Using Unitary method we get;

Number of golf balls collected in 1 hour =
`(2876)/(8)=359.5`

But given she collects equal number of golf balls in each hour and golf balls cannot be in decimal number.

so we can say that;

Alex collected 359 golf balls each hour and 4 balls were remaining as remainder.