Question

Jane is helping the librarian stack books on some new shelves. She is to stack 116 books on 16 shelves. The librarian told her to put the same number of books on each of the 16 shelves.

Describe one way that Jane can use to determine the number of books she should put on each shelf.

Answer 1

She should divide The total of books to the total of shelfs

Explanation:

Answer 2

she can put 7 on each shelf with 4 left over.

Explanation:

You divide 116 by 16, which is 7.25 and 1/4 of 16 is 4. So you know you have 4 leftover.