Farmer has 500 melons.

Question

A farmer has 500 melons.

He sold 124 melons on Monday.

He sold 213 melons on Tuesday.

He filled boxes that each hold 8 melons with all the remaining melons.

How many boxes did the farmer need to hold the remaining melons?

Answer 1

First step is to find out how many melons the farmer has left after selling on Monday and Tuesday.

500-124-213= 163

Knowing that the farmer has 163 melons left and each box holds 8 melons, we need to divide the number of total melons by 8. (total/# in each box = # of boxes)

163/8= 20.4

Since we can't have .4 of a box lets just round the number up to 21, so our final answer is that the farmer will need 21 boxes.

Answer 2

The first question to ask is how many melons are there left?

x = 500–124–213

So with that many melons left, what math operation (adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing) do we need to use to distribute 8 melons evenly into each box?

x ÷ 8 = ?

Hint: The answer will not be a whole number, so you will have to round up to the next whole number so that the remaining melons have a box to go into.