Question

John was asked to stock the store shelves with boxes of cereal there were 12 empty shelves that can hold eight boxes of cereal each if there were 85 boxes of cereal in the back of John store how many shelves could John completely filled with cereal boxes

Answer 1

10 shelves

Explanation:

In order to calculate how many whole shelves we can fill we simply need to divide the total number of cereal boxes that John has in the back by the number of boxes that each shelf can hold like so...

85 / 8 = 10.625

Based on these numbers we can see that with the number of cereal boxes available we can fill a total of 10 shelves by using

10 * 8 = 80 cereal boxes

80 cereal boxes. That would leave 5 cereal boxes left which is not enough to fill another shelve.