A t-shirt printing company can pack 24 shirts for box for shipping if they need to ship 492 shirts to Lakeside Elementary School how many boxes will it take to ship off all 492 shirts
Hey there Seth,
Here's how you get the answer:
Divide
492 / 24 = 20.5
20.5 = 20 ½
Answer: It would take 20 ½ boxes to ship 492 shirts to the school.
You have two numbers.
Do you think you should
add?
subtract?
multiply?
divide?
What answer do you get?
Who uses half a box?
I get a much different answer.
To find out the number of boxes needed to ship off all 492 shirts, we can divide the total number of shirts by the number of shirts per box.
The number of shirts per box is given as 24.
So, to calculate the number of boxes needed, we can use the formula:
Number of boxes = Total number of shirts / Number of shirts per box.
Replacing the values, we have:
Number of boxes = 492 shirts / 24 shirts per box.
Now, let's do the calculation:
Number of boxes = 20.5 boxes.
Since you cannot have half of a box, the company will need to round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, it will take 21 boxes to ship off all 492 shirts.