A pound of popcorn is popped for a class party. The popped corn is put into small popcorn boxes that each hold 130 popped kernels. There are 1,450 kernels in a pound of unpopped popcorn. If all the boxes are filled except for the last box, how many boxes are needed and how many popped kernels are in the last box? Please explain how you get the answer
Accepted Solution
A:
12 boxes are needed and 20 will be in the last box.
1450/130 is 11.15 so You round up and need 12 boxes (because you can’t have .15 of a box) so you get the 11 boxes and multiply by how much it can hold (130) and get 1430 which is 20 short of 1450 so 20 would be in the last box .