Doyle Office Supplies received an order for 801,708 tacks. If each box in the shipment contains 47 tacks, how many boxes do they need to include in the shipment?
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Doyle Office Supplies received an order for 801,708 tacks. If each box in the shipment contains 47 tacks, how many boxes do they need to include in the shipment boxes
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To find out how many boxes are needed, you can divide the total number of tacks by the number of tacks per box.
1. Start with the total number of tacks: 801,708.
2. Divide by the number of tacks in each box: 47.
So, the calculation is:
[
text{Number of boxes} = frac{801,708}{47} approx 17,048
]
Since you can’t have a fraction of a box, you’ll need 17,048 boxes in the shipment.
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