A school is booking buses for a school trip. There are 1,078 people on the trip. Each bus holds 58 people. How many buses should the school book?

Question

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Answer 1

To solve this question, we want to figure out how many buses the school needs to book to take all the people on the trip. We divide 1,078 people/58 people/bus to get that we need at least 18.6 buses. Since we can't book 0.6 of a bus, we will round up to the next whole number of buses to make sure that we take all the people on the school trip. We will take 19 buses.

 

We can then check our math to see how many people we can take with 19 buses. 19 buses x 58 people/bus = 1,102 people. If we only took 18 buses, then we could take 18 buses x 58 people/bus = 1,044 people. We need to take 19 buses to take all 1,078 people on the school trip because if we take 18 buses or fewer then we will leave some people behind.