Question

The school cafeteria needs to buy 200 new forks. If each package contains 9 forks, how many packages should the cafeteria buy?

Answer 1

Answer:

23 packages

Step-by-step explanation:

We are told that the school cafeteria needs to buy 200 new forks. Each package contains 9 forks.

To find the number of packages that school cafeteria should buy we will divide total number of needed forks by number of forks in each pack.

$\text{The number of fork packages}=\frac{200}{9}$

$\text{The number of fork packages}=22.22222$

Since forks come in package of 9, so cafeteria have to buy whole number packages.

Let us round up our answer to the whole number.

$\text{The number of fork packages}=22.22222\approx 23$

Therefore, school cafeteria should buy 23 packages of forks.

Answer 2

Answer:

23 packages should the cafeteria buy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Proportion states that the two ratios or fractions are equal.

As per the statement: The school cafeteria needs to buy 200 new forks. If each package contains 9 forks.

then by definition of Proportion;

$\frac{1}{9} = \frac{x}{200}$   , where x represents the package

By cross multiply;

200 = 9x

Divide both sides by 9 we get;

$\frac{200}{9} =\frac{9x}{9}$

Simplify:

$x = \frac{200}{9} =22.222$

Therefore, 23 package should the cafeteria buy.