Question

Franklin school is having a Popsicle party for its nine hundred fifty four students.The secretary there will some Popsicle left over to share with the teachers. Each student will get two Popsicle. Popsicle come in boxes that have one dozen Popsicle. There are twenty-five boxes in cartoon, how many boxes of Popsicle? Show your work.

Answer 1

175 boxes

Explanation:

There are a total of 954 students since each student will get two popsicles that would mean we need a total of 1,908 popsicles (954 * 2). Since each box contains 12 popsicles then we simply divide the total number of popsicles needed by the number of popsicles that fit in each box to find the total number of boxes.

1,908 / 12 = 159 boxes

Since there are 25 boxes per carton we divide 159 by 25

159 / 25 = 6.36

Now we see that we need at least 6.36 cartons of popsicles, but since we can't get 6.36 we would need to get 7 cartons which would bring a total of

7 * 25 = 175 boxes

Finally, we would end up with 175 boxes of popsicles which would be enough for all the students and have leftover for the teachers.