Question

A box can hold a maximum of 8 cans. You have 50 cans to put in boxes. What is the smallest number of boxes you need to store all of the cans in boxes?

Answer 1

Answer:

7 is the smallest number number of boxes

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is 7 boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given information:

• A single box can hold 8 cans
• You have 50 cans

Problem statement: What is the minimum number of boxes you need to store all the cans?

Solution:

50 = (8×6) + 2

So as you can see we need 7 boxes

Out of those 7 boxes 6 boxes will be full and contain 8 cans and the last box will contain 2 cans.

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