Chelsea needs to put 514 drinking glasses into boxes. each box holds 6 glasses. how many boxes will chelsea need? explain your reasoning.

Basically to determine the number of drinking glasses that Chelsea needs, use the proportion ratio given in the problem and either cross multiply or find a number that will multiply to give the number of boxes that Chelsea will need.

1 box = 6 glasses

? boxes = 514 glasses

(514 glasses * 1) / 6 = ?

? = 85.6, so she would need about 86 boxes in total to store a total amount of 514 drinking glasses, assuming that a single box can store 6 drinking glasses.

There are 514 total glasses. each box holds a total of 6 glasses.

514/6 = 85.66, rounding up, you would need 86 boxes.