Question

a bed and bath company intends to ship out 28,457 blue blankets, and three times as many white blankets. if each box contains 55 blankets of either color, how many full boxes of blankets can be packed and how many blankets are left over for the last box?

Answer 1

hint: there were three times as many white blankets as blue blankets, so calculate the number of white blankets by multiplying 3*number of blue blankets

then, add blue + white

finally, divide by 55 and calculate the remainder using long division