The third grade teachers want to purchase 3 pencils for each student and there 80 tried grades. How many packages of pencils do they need to buy.

Question

Its my math homework and I don't get it. Please help me

Answer 1

To give 80 students 3 pencils each, the teacher will need:

 

80 students * 3 pencils each = 240 pencils.

 

To find how many packs of pencils the teacher needs to buy, just divide the total number of pencils (240) by the number of pencils in a pack.  For example, if there are 6 pencils in a pack:

 

(240 pencils)/(6 pencils per pack) = 40 packs

 

You didn't actually state how many pencils are in a pack.  R-read your problem statement, and if the number of pencils per pack is different than 6, then divide 240 pencils by the number of pencils in a pack as stated in the problem instead of dividing by 6.