Question

A basketball league wants to order 79 T-shirts for the teams. If there are 9 T-shirts in each package, how many packages of T-shirts should the league order?

Answer 1

9 boxes

Explanation:

The least amount of boxes ordered will be 9 boxes which would be 81 shirts.

79 is a prime number which means that it can only be divided by one and itself (79).

We also know that 8 × 9 is 72 so that wouldn't work. But, when we do 9 × 9 we get 81 which fits the requirement of 79 shirts and only gives us 2 extra shirts!