How many packages of three donuts do you need if you want to give two donuts to each of 24 people?

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escamer · Answer

@Deadly_Roses

escamer · Answer

That's what I'm trying to figure out, but I cant find the answer

deadly_roses · Answer

24 divided by three is 8

anonymous · Answer

double it

escamer · Answer

What if it was a dozen donuts each package??

zepdrix · Answer

You still stuck on this one? :)
`2 donuts to each person`
`24 people`

So how many donuts is that `in total`?

escamer · Answer

Hmm, that would have to be a dozen. xD I'm so stupid lol

zepdrix · Answer

No.
If we were giving each person `half a donut`
then `half a donut` times `24 people` is 24 half donuts.
Which is 12 full donuts, which is a dozen.

We don't want to give them half a donut though,
they want 2 each.

escamer · Answer

Exactly

zepdrix · Answer

`2 donuts` times `24 people` = how many donuts?

escamer · Answer

48

zepdrix · Answer

K good, that's step 1.
48 donuts in total.

Now you want to divide that total into portions of 3.

48 / 3 = ?

escamer · Answer

16

zepdrix · Answer

So we've found out that we would need 16 `packages of 3`.

Yay good job \c:/

escamer · Answer

:o The question seems hard until you break it down...

zepdrix · Answer

Word problems can be difficult at first.

It will take a little while to understand when you should multiply,
when you should add, or divide,
based on the wording.

Practice more!! :)

escamer · Answer

Thanks for the help!! ^-^