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A brick layer needs 58,938 bricks to build a small house. If there are 19 bricks per box, how many boxes are needed?

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Final answer:

To find out how many boxes are needed for 58,938 bricks with each box holding 19 bricks, one must divide the total number of bricks by the bricks per box and then round up, resulting in the need for 3103 boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the number of boxes needed to hold 58,938 bricks when each box contains 19 bricks, we will use simple division:

Divide the total number of bricks needed by the number of bricks per box: 58,938 ÷ 19.

Perform the division: 58,938 ÷ 19 = 3102. The result is not a whole number, which means more than 3102 full boxes are required.

Since we can't have a fraction of a box, we round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we need 3103 boxes to accommodate all 58,938 bricks.

This calculation is based on the fact that we always need to provide full boxes even if the last box may not be completely filled with bricks.

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Answer:

3012

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