Question

Ian has 14 boxes of paper and divides them evenly between 4 coworkers.how many whole boxes did each coworker get?

Answer 1

I believe each coworker got 3 boxes.

If you divide 14 by 4, you get 3.5. But, since the question is how many WHOLE boxes, they would have gotten 3 whole boxes.

Answer 2

we know that
Ian has $14$ boxes of paper
and
divides them evenly between $4$ coworkers

so
divide $14$ boxes of paper by $4$ coworkers
$\frac{14}{4} =3.5 \\ =3 \frac{1}{2}$ boxes

$3.5=(3+0.5)$

the whole number is equal to $3$

hence

the answer is
$3$ boxes