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 for 801,708 tacks, you can divide the total number of tacks by the number of tacks in each box.
1. Total tacks: 801,708
2. Tacks per box: 47
Now, perform the division:
[
text{Number of boxes} = frac{text{Total tacks}}{text{Tacks per box}} = frac{801,708}{47}
]
Calculating this gives:
[
text{Number of boxes} approx 17,036
]
Thus, Doyle Office Supplies needs 17,036 boxes to ship 801,708 tacks.