Question

The city council budgeted $9,636 to buy new garbage cans. If each garbage can cost $33, how many garbage cans will the city be able to buy?

Answer 1

The easiest way to find this is to simply create an equation:

x (number of trashcans) = 9636/33

Your basically trying to calculate how many times 33 goes into 9636. As a result:

x = 292