Question

A banquet caterer has 4636 dishes of the same pattern in inventory. If there are 7 dishes per place setting, how many place settings does the caterer have ? Can someone please explain how to solve this.

Answer 1

Hi. In order to solve this, we simply need to divide. Let's start with what we know.

The caterer has 4,636 dishes
There are 7 dishes per place setting

To find out how many place settings there are, we divide 7 into 4,636, which gives us 662 with a remainder of 2.

I am attaching an image so you can see how it is worked out.

I hope it helps.

Take care,
Diana