Question

three students divided 53 base ten blocks equally among them. how many base ten blocks does each student receive? how many were left over?

Answer 1

Each person would get 17 blocks and there will be two left over.If you have a number greater than 30 and you want to divide it by 3 you use the distributive property. 30\3 is 10 plus 23 divided by 3 is 7r2.10 plus 7r2 is 17r2...