Question

A cat adoption facility takes in an average of 5 cats per day. The facility has to keep their cat occupancy below 300. Currently, the facility has 255 cats. If none of their cats get adopted, how many more days, x, can the facility continue to take in cats?

Answer 1

They can take in cats for 9 more days before they reach capacity.

Explanation:

The easiest way to do this lol:

Subtract 255 from 300 to get 45. Since 45 is divisible by 5 which is the average amount of cats they can take per day, count by 5 with your fingers until you reach the number five. How many fingers are you holding up? Nine. Tadaaa.