Question

Jane is helping the librarian stack books on some new shelves. She is to stack 116 books on 16 shelves. The librarian told her to put the same number of books on each of the 16 shelves. Describe a different way that Jane can use to determine the number of books she should put on each shelf.

Answer 1

Answer: The number of books she should put on each shelf = 7

Explanation:

Given: Total books = 116

Total shelves = 16

To determine : The number of books she should put on each shelf, we first divides the total number of books by the total shelf.

`116/ 16=7\frac14`

So she can put 7 books in each shelf such that (7x16=) 112 books got placed and (116-112=)4 books left.

Hence, The number of books she should put on each shelf = 7.