There are 4000 apples to be divided into boxes so that each box holds 75 apples. How many boxes are required?

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Elsa

Mathematics

26 September, 06:28

There are 4000 apples to be divided into boxes so that each box holds 75 apples. How many boxes are required?

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Maximillian Tucker · Answer 1

[ (160/3) (Decimal: 53.333333 apples) ]

Can be written as 54 apple boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

=total no. of apples / no. of apples each box holds

=4000/75=53.333

Duarte · Answer 2

54 boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

If we divide 4000 to 75 in odrer to find the box number we get a decimal number (53,3333), so, we multiply the nearest number (53) with 75 and we get 3,975. Till now we used 53 boxes and for those who are left we use an another box and it makes 54 boxes.