Question

87 sea shells are put in bags. There are 14 sea shells in each bag. How many bags are required to put all the sea shells?

Answer 1

Toal number of sea shells = 87
Number of sea shells in each bag = 14
To find the total number of bags required we need to divide 87 by 14.

Let us apply repeated subtraction.

87 - 14 = 73
73 - 14 = 59
59 - 14 = 45
45 - 14 = 31
31 - 14 = 17
17 - 14 = 3

So, we need 6 bags and 3 sea shells are leftover, for that also we will need one extra bag.

Thus, in total we need 7 bags for 87 sea shells.