An auto transport truck holds 12 cars. A car dealer plans to bring in 1,150 new cars in June and July. If an auto transport truck is filled for each delivery, except for the last one, how many truckloads are needed and how many cars will be in the last truckload?

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mathstudent55 · Answer

Since the truck needs to transport 1,150 cars 12 at a time, which operation do you think you need to find how many trips the truck must make?

anonymous · Answer

12/1150
95 cars with a remainder of 10?

michele_laino · Answer

correct! we have $1150=95 \cdot 12+10$

michele_laino · Answer

so, we need of 96 truckloads

mathstudent55 · Answer

Correct.
That means the truck needs to make 95 trips full with 12 cars.
On the 96th trip, it will only take 10 cars.

anonymous · Answer

thanks!

mathstudent55 · Answer

That means you need a total of 96 truck trips.
The last truck trip will have only 10 cars.

mathstudent55 · Answer

yw

mathstudent55 · Answer

By the way, the operation you need is
1150 divided by 12, which is written as
1150/12

Writing it as 12/1150 is incorrect because that means 12 divided by 1150. That's not what you need in this problem.

In the end, you did the division correctly, you just wrote it incorrectly.

1150/12 = 95 remainder 10