Question

Gerry has a large box of volume 50 m³ and has to fill in smaller boxes of 9 m³ inside of it. How many entire boxes can he fit in?

Answer 1

Volume of the bigger box $=50$ m${}^3$

Volume of the smaller boxes $=9$ m${}^3$

Therefore, the number of boxes that he can fit in $=\frac{Totalvolumeofthebox}{volumeofsmallerbox}=\frac{50}{9}=5.56$

Since he has to fill in entire boxes, we cannot have the volume in decimals, so the maximum number of small boxes that can entirely fill into the bigger box $=5$