Write a story problem for 62 divided by 8 so that the answer is 8.

Question

This is elementary math, beginning algebra.The division problem is 62 divided by 8 but the student must write a story problem so that the answer is 8.

Answer 1

Andy had seven guests at his 10th birthday

party.  His mother opened up a bag

of candy which had 62 individual

pieces in it.  After dividing the candies

evenly among all the kids, Andy's mom

added two more candies from her dish.

How many pieces of candy did each

child receive?