Question

Paula and Ava collected wildflowers, Paula collected 13 kinds of flores, Ava collected 15 kinds. They put 8 flowers on each page of a scrapbook Select an option in each set to make the statements true,Paula and Ava filled ( 3, 4, 8 ) pages of the scrapbook and had( 3, 4, 8 ) flowers left. To fill the last page, they need ( 2, 4, 7 ) meraflower

Answer 1

Step 1

Find out the total number of flowers Paula and Ava had

$\text{They had together 15 + 13= 28 flowers}$

Step 2

Find how many pages they filled

$\begin{gathered} Since\text{ they have 28 flowers, and eight flowers are on each page, we have} \\ \frac{28}{8}=\text{ 3 complete set of 8 flowers remainder 4 flowers} \end{gathered}$

Hence 3 pages will be filled and they will have 4 flowers left.

Step 3

Find how many flowers they need to fill the last page.

$\begin{gathered} T\text{hey put 8 flowers in each page of the scrapbook.} \\ \text{They have 4 flowers left, so they will n}eed\text{ 4 more flowers to get the 8 required for a page} \end{gathered}$

Hence, they will need 4 more flowers to fill the last page