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A School ordered 357 packages of pencils. If there are 42 teachers, how many packages does each teacher get?

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Since there are 357 packages of pencils and 42 teachers we can determine how many packages each teacher gets by doing:

357 divide 42

This gets us 8.5 therefore each teacher gets 8.5 packages
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