Question

A box can hold 9 cookies. A baker has 878 cookies that she wants to put equally into boxes. How many cookies will be in the last box that isn't full?

Answer 1

6 cookies will be in the last box that would not be full.
divide 679 by 9+97 withe the remainder
97 times 9=873
879-973 is 6

Answer 2

97 boxes will be full and the box that isn't full will have 5 cookies in it