Mrs. Jones decided to buy some pencils for her class. She bought 2 packages of pencils, and each package contained 72 pencils. There are 24 students in her class and she divided up the pencils so that each student had the same amount of pencils. If there were no pencils left over, how many pencils did each student get?

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hysusonic · Answer

2 packages of 72 pencils equals how many pencils in total?

anonymous · Answer

144?

hysusonic · Answer

okay now there are 24 kids in her class and she wants to DIVIDE them equally amongst them

anonymous · Answer

6?

hysusonic · Answer

exactly, each kid will get 6 pencils