Question

Dr.Mike and Ms. Kim wanted to buy chocolate hearts for the entire school for Valentine’s Day. The chocolate hearts come in packs of 4 and there is 567 students. How many packs will they need to buy ?

Answer 1

142 boxes of chocolate hearts

Explanation:

1. number of students divided by the number of chocolate hearts in a box (567/4 = 142)

2. check work (142*4 = 568) --- if they buy 142 boxes of hearts they will have one extra heart if each person gets 1 chocolate