Principal clements needs to buy 10 packages
Solution:
Given that, Principal clements wants to buy a pencil for each of the 57 fourth graders in her school
The pencils come in packages of 6
Therefore,
Total number of students = 57
Thus, divide 57 by 6 to get the number of packages clements need to buy
[tex]\text{Number of packages } = \frac{\text{total number of students }}{6}[/tex]
Substituting the given values we get,
[tex]\text{Number of packages } = \frac{57}{6} \\\\\text{Number of packages }= 9.5 \approx 10[/tex]
Thus principal clements needs to buy 10 packages
