Adam and Nick are having an argument. Adam says if you have forty - five pencils to put into five boxes, you can use 45 : 5 to find how many pencils to put into each box. Nick says if you have forty - five pencils and want to put nine into each box, you can use 45 : 9 to find out how many boxes you need. Who is correct, Adam or Nick?

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Ernesto Fleming

Mathematics

22 June, 05:36

Adam and Nick are having an argument. Adam says if you have forty - five pencils to put into five boxes, you can use 45 : 5 to find how many pencils to put into each box. Nick says if you have forty - five pencils and want to put nine into each box, you can use 45 : 9 to find out how many boxes you need. Who is correct, Adam or Nick?

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Cora Adams · Answer 1

Both are correct, because when they divide their pencils that way, both of them will have equal amount of boxes and equal amount of pencils in each box.