Question

kevin has 280 erasers stored in boxes. there are 40 boxes. the erasers are equally distributed in the boxes. He distributed one.box among two.students. the first student got 3 erasers; the second.got 2 erasers. how many erasers were left in that box

Answer 1

there will be 2 left because when you divide 280 by 40 there are 7 and 7-3-2 = 2

Answer 2

there would be 2 erasers left in the box because 280/40=7 so there are 7 erasers in each box and 7-3-2=2