A teacher bought 120 pencils. The pencils come 15 to a package. How many packages, p, of pencils did the teacher buy?

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Jonas Massey

Mathematics

28 April, 23:55

A teacher bought 120 pencils. The pencils come 15 to a package. How many packages, p, of pencils did the teacher buy?

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Jamar Woodard · Answer 1

He has 8 packages because 15 x 8 = 120

Kristian Morse · Answer 2

Since they give you the unknown "p" I'm assuming that you need to write out an equation and then solve ... If we have 120 pencils and they are packaged into groups of 15, then we are dividing.

p = 120/15

p = 8

The teacher has 8 packages of pencils