68 books equally distributed onto 9 shelves and last shelf has 5 books how many books on each of the 9 shelves?

Question

68 books on a book shelf, books are equally distributed onto 9 shelves and last shelf has 5 books.  how many books are on each of the 9 shelves?

Answer 1

First subtract the 5 books for the last shelf from total books

 

68 - 5 = 63 books

 

Then divide the remaining books by the 9 shelves:

 

63 book/9 shelves = 7 books/shelf

 

with 5 books on last shelf